The Hounds and the Fury (26 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R
ITA
M
AE
B
ROWN
is the bestselling author of (among others)
Rubyfruit Jungle, Six of One, Southern Discomfort, Outfoxed,
and a memoir,
Rita Will.
She also collaborates with her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie, on the
New York Times
bestselling Mrs. Murphy mystery series. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and poet, she lives in Afton, Virginia. She is master and huntsman of the Oak Ridge Foxhunt Club and is one of the directors of Virginia Hunt Week. She is also Visiting Faculty at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Books by Rita Mae Brown
with “Sister” Jane Arnold in the Outfoxed series

Outfoxed

Hotspur

Full Cry

The Hunt Ball

Books by Rita Mae Brown with Sneaky Pie Brown

Wish You Were Here

Rest In Pieces

Murder At Montecello

Pay Dirt

Murder, She Meowed

Murder on the Prowl

Cat on the Scent

Sneaky Pie’s Cookbook for Mystery Lovers

Pawing Through the Past

Claws and Effects

Catch as Cat Can

Cat’s Eyewitness

Sour Puss

Books by Rita Mae Brown

The Hand That Cradles the Rock

Songs to a Handsome Woman

The Plain Brown Rapper

Rubyfruit Jungle

In Her Day

Six of One

Southern Discomfort

Sudden Death

High Hearts

Started from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer’s Manual

Bingo

Venus Envy

Dolley: A Novel of Dolley Madison in Love and War

Riding Shotgun

Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Loose Lips

Alma Mater

The Hounds and the Fury
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2006 by American Artists, Inc.
Title page illustrations copyright © 2006 by Lee Gildea, Jr.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

B
ALLANTINE
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data

Brown, Rita Mae.

The hounds and the fury : a novel/Rita Mae Brown.—1st ed.
p. cm.

1. Fox hunting—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.R698H63 2006

813'.54—dc22                           2006042768

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