MURDER SHOOTS THE BULL
by Anne George
Murder Shoots The Bull ($22.00; Jun. 8; 256 pp.; 0-380-97688-9): Those Mutt-and-Jeff sisters of Dixie—married, petite Patricia Anne Hollowell and predatory, plus-size Mary Alice Crane (Murder Gets a Life, 1998, etc.)—are off and running once again when an investment club partnership with Patricia Anne’s neighbor Mitzi Phizer leads to rumors of adultery for Mitzi’s mild husband Arthur, and then to even nastier (though properly genteel) rumors when his alleged inamorata is found dead.