Рита Браун: Fox Tracks

Back in the truck, heading home, through her tears of laughter, Betty said, “You are crazy.”

Sister replied, “It’s good to be alive.”

To the Reader:

Tobacco is interwoven with the history of the New World. I found it fascinating. Should you wish to pursue the subject, you might begin with:

http://​archive.​tobacco.​org/​History/​Tobacco_​History.​html

For an overview of government response to tobacco, try:

http://​www.​fda.​gov/​tobacco​products/​guidance​compliance​regulatory​information/​default.​htm

You will find much more if you search using your computer. As this is a work of fiction an extensive bibliography is out of place, but works on tobacco and tobacco families are not difficult to find.

If you took chemistry in high school, you will be able to battle through technical publications and monographs. If you pursued chemistry in college you might find the analysis of varying chemical compositions of the different tobacco types exciting. Even with my limited background in chemistry, I was amazed at how tobacco can be manipulated, for lack of a better word.

At bottom, tobacco helped build the United States. It is worth studying.

All best,

Rita Mae

Dedicated to the Three Foxhunting Muses:

Mrs. W. Patrick Butterfield (Kay)

Mrs. Gloria Galban Fennell

Mrs. David Lamb (Sally)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

One of my hardest riding hunt club members, Mrs. William Johnson (Maria), has set up a Facebook page so that you may ride along with Sister Jane.

http://​www.​facebook.​com/​sister​janearnold

We’ll see you in the hunt field.

The Sister Jane series

Outfoxed

Hotspur

Full Cry

The Hunt Ball

The Hounds and the Fury

The Tell-Tale Horse

Hounded to Death

Fox Tracks

Books by Rita Mae Brown with Sneaky Pie Brown

Wish You Were Here

Rest in Pieces

Murder at Monticello

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 Effect

Catch as Cat Can

The Tail of the Tip-Off

Whisker of Evil

Cat’s Eyewitness

Sour Puss

Puss ‘n Cahoots

The Purrfect Murder

Santa Clawed

Cat of the Century

Hiss of Death

The Big Cat Nap

Sneaky Pie for President

The Nevada series

A Nose for Justice

Murder Unleashed

Books by Rita Mae Brown

Animal Magnetism: My Life with

Creatures Great and Small

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 Sand Castle

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

RITA MAE BROWN is the bestselling author of a series of foxhunting novels— Fox Tracks , Hounded to Death , The Tell-Tale Horse , The Hounds and the Fury , The Hunt Ball , Full Cry , Hotspur , and Outfoxed —the New York Times bestselling Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries, and Rubyfruit Jungle , In Her Day , and Six of One , among many other novels. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, she lives in Afton, Virginia, where she is master of foxhounds of Oak Ridge Hunt Club and one of the directors of Virginia Hunt Week. She founded the first all-women’s polo club, Blue Ridge Polo, in 1988. She was also Visiting Faculty at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Visit her website at www.ritamaebrown.com.