Mignon Franklin Ballard
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life in America during World War II springs vividly to life as Miss Dimple and her fellow townspeople battle valiantly against worry, rationing, and crime at home as well as abroad. It's September 1943, and the town of Elderberry, Georgia, has exciting plans for the Bond Rally to support the troops fighting the war abroad. Miss Dimple's friend, Virginia Balliew, has agreed to chair the big event, with the help of Buddy Oglesby. But when children discover...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Charlie Carr, it's a trying time in Elderberry, Georgia--and not just because of the war. Though her head dictates loyalty to handsome corpsman Hugh Brumlow, whenever she thinks of her best friend's beau, her heart does the Jersey Bounce. And now, the entire town of Elderberry is in a tizzy. One frosty November morning, Charlie and her fellow teachers are miffed with the school custodian "Christmas" Malone. The furnace hasn't been stoked and he...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"October, 1944. It has been a challenging season for Elderberry's favorite first grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick. A beloved former student was recently killed in the war, her brother has become distant, and her friend Odessa, the cook at Pheobe's rooming house, has taken a leave of absence to care for a relative. Still, when Dimple's librarian friend, Virginia, finds a young woman, Dora, on the library porch looking for a place to spend the...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
"With the country in the midst of World War II, you can be sure the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, will pull together to find a missing child. And you can be equally certain that first-grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, will be in the search party--especially since Peggy Ashcroft is one of her students. Miss Dimple carves out a search path all her own and once again, the sharp-as-a-tack teacher is right on point. But she finds Peggy too sick...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel "temp," who literally flies in "on a wing and a prayer" from her last assignment in the 1940's to help her charge, Mary George Murphy, unearth an old mystery and the truth about Aunt Caroline's death, and to guide Mary George in a new direction in her own life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Life in Stone's Throw, South Carolina is usually very quiet, but when a childlike old woman calling herself Shirley shows up on Lucy's doorstep looking for her mama, the little town is turned on its head. Lucy and her friend Ellis suspect that the woman could be Ellis's cousin who disappeared more than fifty years ago. But before they can find out, the woman/child disappears - and a local woman is found dead." -- P. [4] of cover.