Delilah Dickinson, who runs a literary travel agency in Atlanta, finds her new business getting some bad press when an overnight stay at a plantation modeled after Tara from "Gone with the Wind" results in murder when the actor playing the role of Rhett Butler turns up dead.

Delilah Dickinson's literary travel agency is a hit. And now, after an alarmingly lively tour through the Old South of Gone with the Wind, she's ready to embark on a steamboat trip down the Mississippi, a la Huckleberry Finn. But when one of her passengers winds up dead, Delilah reckons she'll have to get to the bottom of this ornery mystery.

While attending the annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans, Delilah Dickinson becomes immersed in a murder investigation when one of the professors claims he can prove Williams didn't write Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the supposed real author turns up dead. Original.

Delilah Dickinson led a group of tourists to the tropical paradise of Key West so they could explore the home of literary icon Ernest Hemingway, take in the exciting nightlife, and enjoy the luxurious amenities of an exclusive beach resort. What Delilah didn't know was that murder was also waiting for her in Key West . . . FOR WHOM THE FUNERAL BELL TOLLS is the eagerly awaited fourth novel in the best-selling series of Delilah Dickinson Literary Tour Mysteries. These books have been called a fun read. Light, entertaining, and well written.?Novel Observations. The prolific author has a winner in series heroine Delilah Dickinson, a Southern belle and feisty redhead (just don?t call her ?Red?) with a knack for solving crime. ? Book Reporter Washburn's literary in-jokes and lightly satirical jabs at academe entertain, but the book's main attraction is its likably down-to-earth protagonist. ? Publisher Weekly.