The Darling Dahlias and the cucumber tree

The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.

Main Author: Albert, Susan Wittig.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Berkley Prime Crime, c2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Darling Dahlias mysteries ; 1.
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Summary: The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.
Item Description: Includes recipes.
Includes "Makin' do: 12 ways to stretch whatever we have".
Physical Description: xii, 290 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9780425234457
0425234452
Author Notes: Susan Wittig Albert was born in Illinois in 1940. In 1985, she changed careers from working as the vice president and an English professor at Texas State University to becoming a full-time writer.

During the mid- to late-1980s, Albert was a ghostwriter for the Nancy Drew mystery series. She wrote the acclaimed "Work of Her Own: How Women Create Success and Fulfillment off the Traditional Career Track" in 1992. Under the pseudonym of Robin Paige, Albert and her husband, Bill Albert, co-authored a twelve-volume mystery series set in late Victorian/Edwardian England.

Albert writes the bestselling China Bayles mystery series, which features as its main character a Texas herbalist who had been a criminal attorney in Houston. Albert also writes the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter historical fantasy series, which is set in England during the early twentieth century.

(Bowker Author Biography)