TEN LITTLE BLOODHOUNDS
by Virginia Lanier
Ten Little Bloodhounds ($24.00; Jun.; 288 pp.; 0-06-017548-6): If a bloodhound trainer as expert as Jo Beth Sidden could find wealthy eccentric Alyce Cancannon’s missing cat Amelia in record time, doesn’t it make sense to hire her to investigate Miz Alyce’s murder? The Cancannon lawyers think so, and fans of the sour Georgia peach’s four previous cases (Blind Bloodhound Justice, 1998, etc.) will be happy that, like Jo Beth, they didn’t proceed along normal channels.