The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree

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Penguin, Jul 6, 2010 - Fiction - 304 pages
The country may be struggling through the Great Depression, but the good ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their chins up and their town beautiful. Their garden club, the Darling Dahlias, has just inherited a new clubhouse and garden, complete with two beautiful cucumber trees in full bloom.

But life in Darling is not all garden parties and rosemary lemonade.

When local blond bombshell Bunny Scott is found in a suspicious car wreck, the Dahlias decide to dig into the town's buried secrets, and club members Lizzy, Ophelia, and Verna soon find leads sprouting up faster than weeds. The town is all abuzz with news of an escaped convict from the prison farm, rumors of trouble at the bank, and tales of a ghost heard digging around the cucumber tree. If anyone can get to the root of these mysteries, it's the Darling Dahlias.
 

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ONE The Dahlias in Full Bloom
TWO Ophelia
FOUR Lizzy
FIVE THE GARDEN GATE
EIGHT Verna Tidwell Amateur Sleuth
TEN The Dahlias Play Hearts
TWELVE Myra May Learns Some Startling Facts
On the Case
SIXTEEN Verna and Lizzy Have a Narrow Escape
EIGHTEEN Lizzy and Verna Plan an Expedition
TWENTY Ophelia Takes Bold Action and Lucy Takes Charge
TWENTYTWO The Dahlias Clear up a Mystery or
12 Ways to Stretch Whatever We Have
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Susan Wittig Albert grew up on a farm in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. A former professor of English and a university administrator and vice president, she is the author of the China Bayles Mysteries, the Darling Dahlias Mysteries, and the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter. Some of her recent titles include Widow’s Tears, Cat’s Claw, The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose, and The Tale of Castle Cottage. She and her husband, Bill, coauthor a series of Victorian-Edwardian mysteries under the name Robin Paige, which includes such titles as Death at Glamis Castle and Death at Whitechapel.

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