Title: Murder at Monticello, or, Old sins
First published: 1994
Description: One of the most popular citizens of Virginia's Albemarle County is dead - and has been for nearly 170 years. But that hasn't stopped the good people of the community - and the picturesque village of Crozet - from taking pride in every aspect of Thomas Jefferson's life.

When a new archaeological dig of the slave quarters of Jefferson's home, Monticello, turns up the skeleton of what appears to he a well-to-do man buried beneath a fireplace, it creates a mystery that some of Crozet's Very Best People would rather keep quiet.

Looking deeply into a two hundred-year-old crime turns out to be a dangerous enterprise. Beneath the patina of Southern gentility raw emotions are turning violent and a modern corpse soon joins the old bones at Monticello. But who committed the long-ago Monticello murder...and how is it tied to the new one? With a sharp feline eye for human foibles, Sneaky Pie Brown - and her human co-author Rita Mae Brown - have once more produced a mystery that is as addictive and delightful as a catnip mouse.
Subjects: Fiction, Monticello (Va.), Harry Haristeen (Fictitious character), Women cat owners, Women detectives, Women postal service employees, Cats, Mrs. Murphy (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character), Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Haristeen, harry (fictitious character), fiction, Murphy, mrs. (fictitious character), fiction, Virginia, fiction, Cat owners, fiction, Large type books, Mystery, Kleinstadt, Katze, Kriminalfall
Places: Virginia, Monticello (Va.), USA