The Darling Dahlias and the poinsettia puzzle / Nineteen thirties Gardening Women gardeners Murder
Albert, Susan Wittig,
The Darling Dahlias and the poinsettia puzzle / Poinsettia puzzle. Susan Wittig Albert. - Large print edition. - 431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. - A Darling Dahlias mystery ; 8. . - Albert, Susan Wittig. Darling Dahlias mysteries ; 8. .
It's Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are unwrapping a big package of Christmas puzzles. Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square, if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles of his career as an investigative reporter, and one of them involves his wife. Cute little Cupcake's talent as a singer and dancer makes her a tempting target for an unscrupulous exploiter; Lizzy must enlist the Dahlias to protect her, while she herself is confronted by a romantic puzzle. And Sheriff Norris is forced to reopen a puzzling mystery that the town thought was solved and follow a string of clues that lead to a deadly situation at the nearby prison farm.
9781432858353 (hardcover)
Nineteen thirties--Fiction.
Gardening--Societies, etc.--Fiction.
Women gardeners--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Large type books.
Historical fiction.
The Darling Dahlias and the poinsettia puzzle / Poinsettia puzzle. Susan Wittig Albert. - Large print edition. - 431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. - A Darling Dahlias mystery ; 8. . - Albert, Susan Wittig. Darling Dahlias mysteries ; 8. .
It's Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are unwrapping a big package of Christmas puzzles. Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square, if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles of his career as an investigative reporter, and one of them involves his wife. Cute little Cupcake's talent as a singer and dancer makes her a tempting target for an unscrupulous exploiter; Lizzy must enlist the Dahlias to protect her, while she herself is confronted by a romantic puzzle. And Sheriff Norris is forced to reopen a puzzling mystery that the town thought was solved and follow a string of clues that lead to a deadly situation at the nearby prison farm.
9781432858353 (hardcover)
Nineteen thirties--Fiction.
Gardening--Societies, etc.--Fiction.
Women gardeners--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Large type books.
Historical fiction.