The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree / Susan Wittig Albert / 447 pages / September Challenge - 1930's

The Darling Dahlias are a garden club in depression-era Alabama.  These spunky ladies are sleuths in the Nancy Drew tradition.  There are multiple mysteries to solve.  Who buried something on the Dahlia Club grounds?  Where is the escaped convict?  Who stole the car?  Who killed Bunny?  Who stole the money from the bank?  What happened to the missing drug store clerk?  The intrepid sleuths use all avenues to unearth the answers to these questions...the party line, the beauty parlor, gossip...This is a most entertaining look at depression era America through the antics of inestimably admirable heroines.