The grub-and-stakers pinch a poke

By Charlotte MacLeod

Subjects: Lobelia falls (ont. : imaginary place), fiction, Women, Societies, Ontario, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Canadian fiction, Gardening, Fiction, Societies and clubs, Lobelia Falls, Ontario (Imaginary place), Monk, osbert (fictitious character), fiction, Monk, dittany henbit (fictitious character), fiction

Description: "Lobelia Falls was abuzz about the Scottsbeck drama competition. The Grub-and-Stake Gardening and Roving Club intended to win it with a dramatization of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." The house lights went down, the footlights went up...and someone tried to make opening night the leading man's final curtain. To keep the villain from stealing the show, Dittany Monk quickly switched from her onstage part as the "tiny tot" to her role as wily sleuth. Now the hunt was on for a would-be murderer with a taste for melodrama." -- (p.4) of cover.