The Humpherys Family

The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree {#1}

Record Added: 1/30/2019
Author 
Series Darling Dahlias Mysteries #1
Setting United States
Topic Mystery
Publisher Berkley Books
ISBN 0425234452   Year 2010
Age Adult   Pages 304
Description Printed dustjacket
 
A small Southern town blooms into life in Albert's nostalgic first in a new Depression-era mystery series. Darling, Ala., is in the midst of financial upheaval surrounding the Darling Savings and Trust, though the ladies of the Darling Dahlias Garden Club are still excited about their clubhouse, an old estate recently inherited from Mrs. Dahlia Blackstone, whose garden includes a possibly haunted cucumber tree, which might shelter a buried treasure.

Also distracting the members--especially widow and probate clerk Verna Tidwell; legal secretary and freelance journalist Elizabeth "Lizzy" Lacy, and Mayor Jed Taylor's wife, Ophelia Snow--are a prison break and the disappearance of drugstore clerk Eva Louise "Bunny" Scott, the town tart. After Bunny turns up dead in a wrecked stolen van, the ladies investigate