If you missed the previous installments of this eight-part mystery, you'll find them in the archives . When China Bayles and Ruby Wilcox discovered the body of Rose Barton in the Pecan Springs Cemetery, they expected the police to solve the murder in a few days. But when the case is still open three weeks later, the victim's sister asks China to help.
China learns that the victim was an avid rose collector.
China and Ruby return to the crime scene and discover that a yellow rose has been removed from its place beside the Hausner monument. From an acquaintance of Mrs. Barton's, they also learn that the dead woman was looking for a yellow rose the Yellow Rose of Texas. Ruby had to go back to the shop, so I dropped her off and then drove on. I had an idea, and now was as good a time as any to check it out. I stopped at the newspaper for a quick chat with Lucille King, who knows everything there is to know about the history of Pecan Springs and its founding families.