Laura Childs
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
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Adults - Cozy Mysteries
Adults - Fiction - Cozy Mysteries - first in series
Cozy Mystery Community List
Adults - Fiction - Cozy Mysteries - first in series
Cozy Mystery Community List
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses, to a "Rat Tea," she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns these parties date back to early twentieth-century Charleston, where the cream of society would sponsor so-called rat teas to promote city rodent control and better...