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Alabama Fiction Eldridge, Louise (Fictitious character) Fiction Gardening Fiction Gardening Societies, etc Fiction Large type books Murder Investigation Alabama Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Nineteen thirties Fiction Women gardeners Fiction Women television personalities FictionAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: It looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers - just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break: a serious foul-up in Darling's telephone system - and not a penny for repairs. And while liquor is legal again, moonshine isn't. Sheriff Buddy Norris needs a little luck when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseveto Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBHumphreys, Helen
Summary: A young woman gardner Gwen Davis flees to the Devon countryside where she will be in charge of a Land Army group of young girls who are to plant food crops on a country estate. At the estate along with the girls a regiment of Canadian soldiers live and form friendships, etc. Gwen comes to know herself and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUMMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: After leaving her no-good rodeo boyfriend, Mary Madigan ends up in Oklahoma Creek where she meets journalist Rick, pregnant Phoebe, and HIV-positive Ness, all of whom join forces to help, comfort, and love each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPRipley, Ann.
Summary: Hoping to get great footage for her public television show, "Gardening with Nature," Louise Eldridge comes to the Bethesda Garden Club's famous spring plant sale, but her thoughts quickly turn to sleuthing when the club's president is shot in her own driveway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M RIPAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBHill, Patti (Patti Ann)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: The country may be struggling through the Great Depression, but the good ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their chins up and their town beautiful. Their garden club, the Darling Dahlias, has just inherited a new clubhouse and garden, complete with two beautiful cucumber trees in full bloom. But life in Darling is not all garden parties and rosemary lemonade. When local blond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AlbRipley, Ann.
Summary: TV gardener Louise Eldridge, who is married to a Washington CIA agent, receives a call from a college beau, a journalist in town to do a political story. The Eldridges put him up in their house and several days later find him dead in a neighbor's fish pond. Louise investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIPAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: Rumors are sprouting in Depression-era Darling, Alabama. The town's newest visitors, Nona Jean Jamison and Miss Lake, may be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked. The Dahlias suspect more than modesty when Nona denies her association.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ALBBailey, Tessa
Summary: Returning home to his family's California winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his Ivy League job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIRipley, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M RIPAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBRipley, Ann.
Summary: Louise Eldridge, host of a PBS show, Gardening with Nature, is on location to the Hawaiian island of Kauai, the lush setting for an elite botanical conference. Louise has scheduled a panel featuring an explosive mix of egos and agenda from plant explorer and entrepreneur Dr. Bruce Bouting, pharmaceutical company consultant Dr. Matthew Flynn, environmentalist Dr. Charles Reuter and Pacific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIPAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: When the Texas Star herself--aviatrix Miss Lily Dare, the fastest woman in the world--is threatened and her plane sabotaged, the Darling Dahlias must weed through the rumors to find the truth to take down a saboteur who may be propelled by revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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Summary: "Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens. That's not the worst of it, though, as the Dahlias discover when the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth's Magnolia Manor is found dead. She had overindulged in a large...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBHarris, Rosemary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARRipley, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIPAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: "Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens. That's not the worst of it, though, as the Dahlias discover when the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth's Magnolia Manor is found dead. She had overindulged in a large...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: As the members of the garden club in Darling, Alabama, prepare to plant roses for their annual Confederate Day celebration, they find themselves distracted by a series of mysteries involving stolen funds, a secret code, and a local resident's odd behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012
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Summary: Harris's lively fourth Dirty Business mystery takes gardening professional Paula Holliday from Springfield, Conn., to Manhattan for the Big Apple Flower Show. Held at the old Wagner Center, a more intimate venue than the Javits Center, the show gets off to a bumpy start when an overnight worker dies after falling down an escalator and breaking his neck. When Garland Bleimeister, a show attendee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: "It's the spring of 1933 and times are tough all over. The only businessman not struggling is moonshiner Mickey LeDoux, though he still has to steer clear of federal agents. But banks are closing all over the country, and the small town of Darling is no exception. Folks are suddenly caught short on cash and everyone is in a panic. Desperate to avoid disaster, several town leaders--including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014