THE CAT AND THE QUEEN OF HEARTS
by Carole Nelson Douglas
The Cat And The Queen Of Hearts ($21.95; Dec.; 257 pp.; 0-7862-2173-9): Return with the storied Midnight Louie, the cat who wouldn’t die, to the Las Vegas of 14 years ago in this second installment of his original sleuthing adventures (The Cat and the King of Clubs, p. 578)—first published in paperback in 1990 with unauthorized cuts and now restored to full length—in which shy writing student Darcy McGill and her stuffy professor Stevenson Eliot Austen plunge into the glitzy and dangerous world of Darcy’s showgirl sister Sirene.