Miss Dimple Disappears

It’s 1942 in a cold November in Elderberry, Georgia. It’s almost a year since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and America entered the war. In this first entry in a new cozy mystery series by Mignon F. Ballard, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, who has been a first grade teacher for almost 40 years, is taking her usual morning walk. But why is a car with its headlights off following her?

Soon after, the body of the school janitor shows up in a storage closet at the grade school. Did the janitor die of a heart attack or something more sinister? When someone abducts Miss Dimple, grade schooler Willie Elrod tells his mother he saw Miss Dimple kidnapped by spies! No one believes him because he’s known
for his wild imagination. Third grade teacher Charlie Carr is worried because she knows Miss Dimple would never vanish in the middle of the school year. Charlie convinces her best friend, fourth grade teacher Annie Gardner, to help her investigate.

Miss Dimple Disappears is a look at small town Georgia during the war with spirited townfolk working together to solve the mystery.