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The Darling Dahlias and the eleven o'clock lady, Susan Wittig Albert

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The Darling Dahlias and the eleven o'clock lady

Susan Wittig Albert

Darling Dahlias, 6

Susan Wittig Albert transports readers to the summer of 1934, when a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabama and pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet when there s a mystery to solve The eleven o clock lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacy s favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms don t open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up. But another Eleven O Clock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning has been found strangled with her own silk stocking in a very unladylike position. Gossip sprouts like weeds in a small town, and Rona Jean s somewhat wild reputation is the topic of much speculation regarding who might have killed her

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