Meinders Community Library Pipestone

When Owen sends a real hug to his grandmother for her birthday he inadvertently brings cheer to the postal workers as they pass the hug along.

After Liam writes to his mailbox, asking for more mail, he gets his wish, but soon he realizes that sending mail is even more fun than receiving it.

Explains to young readers what goes on at a post office and the important kinds of work that postal workers do. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and sources of further reading.

Briefly explores the history of the Pony Express and the adventures its brave employees and riders faced doing their jobs.

When Hank Brevard, the plant manager of Crozet Hospital, is murdered in the hospital, Harry uncovers "a closed little world where ego, jealousy, and illicit love often collide. But it's Mrs. Murphy, roaming the netherworld of Crozet Hospital, who sniffs out the most telling fact: a secret room in the old section that dates back to the time of the Underground Railroad."--Jacket.

As the principal of Crozet, Virginia's exclusive private school, Roscoe Fletcher has been an effective and popular administrator, so his obituary in the local paper upsets everyone in town. But Roscoe isn't dead at all. Was the phony obit a sick joke or a sinister warning? Only Mrs. Murphy, the canny tiger cat, senses the pure malice behind it and her theory is borne out when another one appears followed by a fiendish murder. "Harry" Haristeen, as...

Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen takes a dead woodpecker to Don Clatterbuck to have it stuffed, and feline intuition tells Harry's cats and dog that more mysteries lie ahead.

Ever since her husband's affair, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen has taken a sabbatical from men. The 30-ish divorcée is content to tend to her farm and gain a bird's-eye view of the neighbors from her perch as small-town postmistress. Yes when a hunky city slicker comes to town with no clue about farming, she's happy to show him the ropes. When pieces of a dismembered body crop up around Crozer, however, the wary townsfolk reckon the handsome stranger...

Postmistress of Crozet, Virginia, Mary Harry Haristeen has a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. But as murders are discovered all over Crozet, Harry remembers that every victim received a postcard with a picture of a graveyard on the front and the message "wish you were here" on the back.

The annual steeplechase at Montpelier, the high point in the social calendar of the horse set in Virginia, is disturbed by the stabbing of two jockeys, each with a playing card attached to his body. Sleuth Mrs. Murphy and her cat investigate, wondering whether the motive was greed, drugs or sex.