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New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert transports readers to the summer of 1934, when a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabama�and pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias� garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet when there�s a mystery to solve� 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 eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning�has been found strangled with her own silk stocking in a very unladylike position. Gossip sprouts like weeds in a small town, and Rona Jean�s somewhat wild reputation is the topic of much speculation regarding who might have killed her. As the Darling Dahlias begin to sort through Rona Jean�s private affairs, it appears there may be a connection to some skullduggery at the local Civilian Conservation Corps camp. Working at the camp, garden club vice president Ophelia Snow digs around to expose the truth�before a killer pulls up stakes and gets away with murder. Includes Southern-style Depression-era Recipes From the Hardcover edition.