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The hunt ball

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"A rich, atmospheric murder mystery . . . rife with love, scandal . . . redemption, greed and nobility," raved the San Jose Mercury News about Outfoxed, Rita Mae Brown's first foxhunting masterpiece. In The Hunt Ball, the latest novel in this popular series, all the ingredients Brown's readers love are abundantly present: richness of character and landscape, the thrill of the hunt, and the chill of violence.The trouble begins at Custis Hall, an exclusive girls' school in Virginia that has gloried in its good name for nearly two hundred years. At first, the outcry is a mere tempest in a silver teapot--a small group of students protesting the school's exhibit of antique household objects crafted by slaves--and headmistress Charlotte Norton quells the ruckus easily. But when one of the two hanging corpses ornamenting the students' Halloween dance turns out to be real--the body of the school's talented fund-raiser, in fact--Charlotte and the entire community are stunned. Everyone liked Al Perez, or so it seemed, yet his murder was particularly unpleasant. Even "Sister" Jane Arnold, master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, beloved by man and beast, is at a loss, although she knows better than anyone where the bodies are buried in this community of land-grant families and new-money settlers. Aided and abetted by foxes and owls, cats and hounds, Sister picks up a scent that leads her in a most unwelcome direction: straight to the heart of the foxhunting crowd. The chase is on, not only for foxes but also for a deadly human predator.No one has created a fictional paradise more delightful than the rolling hills of Rita Mae Brown's Virginia countryside, or has more charmingly captured the rituals of the hunt. No one understands human and animal nature more deeply. The Hunt Ball combines a rounded, welcoming world with an edge of unforgettable white-knuckled menace.From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
310

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The Hunt Ball: A Novel (Foxhunting Mysteries)
September 26, 2006, Ballantine Books
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The hunt ball
2005, Ballantine Books
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The Hunt Ball (Foxhunting Mysteries)
The Hunt Ball (Foxhunting Mysteries)
August 2005, Recorded Books
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The Hunt Ball
2005, Random House Publishing Group
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The hunt ball
2005, Ballantine Books
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The hunt ball
2005, Center Point Pub.
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New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.R698 H86 2005

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
310 p. ;
Number of pages
310

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3423281M
Internet Archive
huntball00brow
ISBN 10
0345465490
LCCN
2005045315
OCLC/WorldCat
59011526
Library Thing
262004
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
2696252

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