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Miss Dimple Picks a Peck of Trouble

Ballard, Mignon Franklin. Book - 2014 Mystery 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3 out of 5

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"It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing--and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple and her fellow teachers-turned-sleuths are determined to find the killer. Although Prentice had recently broken up with her boyfriend, the most obvious suspect isn't always the right one: Prentice may have been keeping some secrets; and there is a local woman who claims to have witnessed the whole abduction--except she also believes she is Scarlett O'Hara, that Nazi spies are pursuing her, and that she knows where the Confederate gold is buried. Figuring out what really happened to Prentice is sure to be a challenge. But Miss Dimple, who has taught the town's first graders for decades, has never been daunted by a challenge. Mignon F. Ballard's newest edition to her Miss Dimple mystery series, Miss Dimple Picks a Peck of Trouble, is filled with period charm and a wonderfully brave band of amateur sleuths"-- Provided by publisher.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Minotaur Books, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 262 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250035622

SUBJECTS
Women teachers -- Fiction.
Elementary school teachers -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Georgia -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.