Darling Dahlias Mysteries: The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree (Hardcover)

from nx74defiant

The description on the CD case says in part: But when a treasure trove of sterling silver is found buried under the town's famous Cucumber Tree, two of the Dahlias claim ownership, which leads to some very unladylike behavior The silver is found until the very end, and there is no unladylike beha...

from NewsieQ

It's May 1930 in Darling, Alabama. The ladies of the Darling Dahlias Garden Club are enjoying the new club house Mrs. Blackstone, their organization's founder, willed to them - much to the chagrin of her late husband's greedy nephew Beatty, who had coveted it. But that's not the main story in The...

from TheLibraryhag

Well, I have to say I found this book perfectly charming. At first it is a bit hard to get used to all the characters but there is a helpful list at the front of the book. And there are several things going on at the same time, an escaped prisoner, a murder, money missing from the bank, rumors of...

from cathyskye

Susan Wittig Albert almost immediately transported me to Depression-Era Alabama in this first book in the series. She's done her research, and her mentions of songs playing on the radio and the movies that were showing at the theater in town created a lot of the needed ambiance. Her research show...

from khiemstra631

Here begins what I assume is a new series for Susan Wittig Albert. This one was kind of fun because it takes place in the early 1930's in the deep South. This is not a time period one encounters very often in mystery series. The Dahlias are a garden club in Darling, Alabama. They have inherited a...