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Hunting Sketches by Anthony Trollope is a collection of eight short texts that center around the subject of hunting. These eight texts are entitled: "The Man Who Hunts and Doesn't Like It", The Man Who Hunts and Does Like It", The Lady Who Rides to Hound", "The Hunting Farmer", "The Man Who Hunts and Never Jumps", "The Hunting Parson", "The Master of Hounds", and "How to Ride to Hounds". Being clearly fascinated by the subject, Trollope first discusses...
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Critics and fans alike are wild about Rita Mae Brown’s richly imagined and utterly engaging foxhunting mysteries–and this latest novel promises more thrilling hunts, breathtaking vistas, and an all-new sinister scandal.
Millions of dollars seem to be missing after a long-overdue audit of the local aluminum plant reveals a major accounting discrepancy. Company president Garvey Stokes finds himself at a loss–in more ways...
Millions of dollars seem to be missing after a long-overdue audit of the local aluminum plant reveals a major accounting discrepancy. Company president Garvey Stokes finds himself at a loss–in more ways...
3) Hotspur
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In her well-received novel Outfoxed, Rita Mae Brown vividly and deftly brought to life the genteel world of foxhunting, where hunters, horses, hounds, and foxes form a tightly knit community amidst old money and simmering conflicts. With Hotspur, we return to the Southern chase–and to a hunt on the trail of a murderer.
Jane “Sister” Arnold may be in her seventies, but she shows no signs of losing her love...
Jane “Sister” Arnold may be in her seventies, but she shows no signs of losing her love...
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Sister Jane Foxhunting mysteries volume 16
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"An eye-wateringly expensive watch is found discarded on the land days prior to a dead body turning up. "Sister" Jane Arnold sets out to find the connection between the two, with a little help from her friend-both two legged and four-in this transportive mystery. Between organizing a joint session with her friends at Bull Run Hunt, leading her own Jefferson Hunt Club's fox hunting season, and looking after her beloved hounds and horses, "Sister" Jane...
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First published by Derrydale in 1934, this third volume of short stories by Gordon Grand includes the marvelous comic story, Everything Is Alright, Sonny . Featuring Colonel Weatherford and his Millbeck hounds, the warm and humorous stories are ideal for fireside reading for young and old. Illustrations by W. J. Hayes with a color frontispiece.
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"In this thrilling new foxhunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, an investigation into a missing and valuable object flushes out murder, ghosts, and old family rivalries. Now "Sister" Jane Arnold and a pack of four-legged friends must catch the scent of a killer and unearth a long-buried truth. As the calendar turns, the crisp October winds bode well for this year's hunting season. But before the bugle sounds, Sister...
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Hounds and Hunting through the Ages remains the definitive volume for the foxhunter of all skill levels. This primer of foxhunting covers all aspects of the sport, from the history and technique of hunting, to the development, selection, breeding and training of hounds.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, this edition contains a complete glossary of hunting terms. It also includes a Foreword by Mason Houghland, the author of Gone Away and contributor...
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When word reaches her in war-torn Afghanistan that her beloved Uncle Richard has been brutally murdered, globe-trotting photojournalist Abigale Portmann reluctantly abandons her assignment and returns to the rolling hills and rocky relationships of her past in the picturesque equestrian community of Middleburg, Virginiaa place she has painstakingly avoided for 17 years. While the sheriff thinks the murder is a random robbery gone bad, Abigale...
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"Spring is peeking through the frost in Virginia, and though the hunting season is coming to a close, the foxes seem determined to put the members of the Jefferson Hunt Club through their paces. Sister and her friends are enjoying some of the best chases they've had all season when the fun is cut short by the theft of Crawford Howard's treasured Sir Alfred Munnings painting of a woman in hunting attire riding sidesaddle. When another painting goes...
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The complex and romanticized lifestyle of elite foxhunters is revealed in this thrilling murder mystery. An attractive and wealthy lawyer and horseman, Doug Cummings personifies the old money equine subculture of Middleburg, Virginia. Driven to succeed, Cummings's climb to the top is halted when he becomes the target of a twisted scheme to frame him for the murders of his former lover and horse groom. As Cummings attempts to find the true culprits,...
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This vintage book contains a detailed account of the fox hound kennels in the United Kingdom between 1787 and 1912. A detailed history is provided for each kennel, including information concerning notable figures, events, and dogs. Other details are also offered relating to hunting, breeding, training, and more. "The Foxhound of the Twentieth Century" is highly recommended for modern hunting enthusiasts and fox hound lovers, and it would make for...
14) Riding shotgun
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In the course of a fox hunt, Cig Blackwood, a young widow in Virginia, is informed that her husband had an affair with her sister. So shocked is she by the news, she becomes disoriented and loses her way. She emerges back in 1699 Virginia, where she meets her colonial ancestors and falls in love. By the author of Venus Envy.
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"A blackmailer targeting wealthy members of "Sister" Jane Arnold's club has turned the hunters into the hunted in this thrilling mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. It's the start of fox hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, several members of the hunt club receive ominous videos in which they appear to be doing...
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The story is a series of episodes in the youth of George Sherston, ranging from his first attempts to learn to ride to his experiences in winning point-to-point races. The title is somewhat misleading, as the book is mainly concerned with a series of landmark events in Sherston/Sassoon's childhood and youth, and his encounters with various comic characters. "The Flower-Show Match", an account of an annual village cricket match - an important fixture...
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"The chase is on in New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown's gripping new foxhunting mystery, featuring the irrepressible "Sister" Jane Arnold and the wily antics of her four-legged friends. In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, a century-old crime reawakens bad will--and stirs up a scandal that chills Sister to the bone. Sister Jane and the Jefferson Hunt Club have traveled from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to the Bluegrass State of Kentucky to...
18) Fox evil
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When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with bloodstains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's investigation deems it death by natural causes, but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away. Friendless and alone, James and his reclusive behavior begins to alarm his attorney, whose concern deepens when he discovers...
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"Doomed from its 1881 conception, the Meadow Brook hunt on Long Island, New York, managed to survive for ninety years in spite of turmoil and new technology. Foxhunting with Meadow Brook tells the story of the people who, for almost a century, rode behind the Meadow Brook hounds"--
"Foxhunting with Meadow Brook on Long Island, New York, was always about more than the fox, the hounds, or the horses. Meadow Brook was about its people--some powerful,...