TY - BOOK AU - Albert,Susan Wittig TI - The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate rose T2 - A Darling Dahlias mystery SN - 1410450902 (hardcover) PY - 2012/// CY - Waterville, Maine PB - Thorndike Press KW - Gardening KW - Societies, etc KW - Fiction KW - Nineteen thirties KW - Women gardeners KW - Alabama KW - Large type books KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd N2 - "For the Confederate Day celebration, the Darling Dahlias are ready to plant Confederate roses along the fence of the town cemetery. Miss Dorothy Rogers, club member and town librarian, would be quick to point out the plant is in fact a hibiscus. The Confederate rose is not the only thing that is not what it first appears to be in this small Southern town. Earle Scroggins, the county treasurer, has got the sheriff thinking that Scroggins' employee Verna Tidwell (also the Darling Dahlias' trusted treasurer) is behind a missing $15,000. Meanwhile Miss Rogers has discovered her own mystery-what appears to be a secret code embroidered under the cover of a pillow, the only possession she has from her grandmother" -- Cover verso ER -