Hair of the Dog (June and Sidney Book 2)

A Canadian mobster gets his day in court in this comic crime novel by the author of The Weird World of Wes Beattie . Cranky beyond his years, Canadian lawyer Sidney Grant has a loathing for social hypocrisies and a fondness for poking at them. And his smart-alecky new bride June feels much the same way. Now both are brimming with indignation when Vince Lamberti gets blamed for the murder of a rich old lady. It's not that Vince is exactly innocent. He is, after all, a mobster. But the facts of the case against him don't add up. And no matter how many people would like them to keep their mouths shut, Sidney and June simply can't abide bad math. John Norman Harris' The Weird World of Wes Beattie , published in 1963, is often called the first Canadian mystery novel. That's probably stretching Let's just call it a wonderfully funny Canadian mystery novel, with Hair of the Dog its delightful successor. Both feature Sidney Grant, a magnificently cranky young lawyer with a loathing for social hypocrisies and a fondness for poking at them. Here, poking away alongside him is Sidney's new bride, a smart and smart-alecky character in her own right, who shares Sid's indignation when a local mobster gets blamed for the murder of a rich old lady. It's not that she liked the old lady. And she certainly doesn't like the mobster. But the facts of the case against the mobster simply don't add up. And no matter how many people would like them to keep their mouths shut, June and Sidney can't hang with the New Math. Wes Beattie has been called the love-child of Agatha Christie and PG Woodhouse, and Hair of the Dog is its chuckling little brother. Sidney Grant, whom we first met in John Norman Harris's The Weird World of Wes Beattie, is a magnificently cranky young lawyer with a loathing for social hypocrisies and a fondness for poking at them. Here, poking away alongside him is Sidney's new bride, a smart and smart-alecky character in her own right, who shares Sid's indignation when a local mobster gets blamed for the murder of a rich old lady. The facts of the case against the mobster simply don't add up