Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady

New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert transports readers to the summer of 1934, when a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabamaand pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet when theres a mystery to solveThe eleven oclock lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacys favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms dont open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up.But another Eleven OClock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancocka telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginninghas been found strangled with her own silk stocking in a very unladylike position.Gossip sprouts like weeds in a small town, and Rona Jeans somewhat wild reputation is the topic of much speculation regarding who might have killed her. As the Darling Dahlias begin to sort through Rona Jeans private affairs, it appears there may be a connection to some skullduggery at the local Civilian Conservation Corps camp. Working at the camp, garden club vice president Ophelia Snow digs around to expose the truthbefore a killer pulls up stakes and gets away with murder.Includes Southern-style Depression-era RecipesFrom the Hardcover edition.