The darling dahlias and the unlucky clover

The darling dahlias and the unlucky clover

Susan Wittig Albert

eAudio - 2018

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 comes when there's 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 Cypress County's most notorious bootlegger-and what he finds upends his sense of justice. In the seventh book of this popular series, Susan Wittig Albert once again tells a charming story filled with richly human characters who face the Great Depression with courage and grace. She reminds us that friends offer t...he best of themselves to each other, that community is what holds us together, and that luck is what you make of it.

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Subjects
Women gardeners > Fiction.
Nineteen thirties > Fiction.
Alabama > Fiction.
Published
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC 2018.
Language
English
Corporate Author
hoopla digital
Main Author
Susan Wittig Albert (author)
Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Other Authors
Peggity Price (narrator)
Edition
Unabridged
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 38 min.)) : digital
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781974901364
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In bestseller Albert's sweet seventh mystery set in 1930s Darling, Ala., and featuring the ladies of the local garden club (after 2015's The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady), the town's telephone system is suffering from equipment failures because half-owner Whitney Whitforth won't chip in for repairs. More seriously, the Lucky Four Clovers barbershop quartet is struck by disaster when one of its members is killed before the Regional Barbershop Competition. Was it an accident or murder? Sheriff Buddy Norris is on the case, with a little help from Ophelia Snow, Elizabeth Lacy, and the other Dahlias, who soon find a possible link to local bootlegger Bodeen Pyle. Might there also be a connection to Whitworth's disappearance? Along with a good puzzle, Albert provides details on such matters as Liz Lacy's gardening column for the Darling Dispatch and how people manage when money is scarce. Fans old and new will welcome this charming look at a Depression-era small Southern town. (BookLife) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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