![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Buckshaw, the de Luce ancestral home, is in a bit of an uproar. Tantalizing hints about a gardener with a shady past and the mysterious death of Flavia's adventurous mother promise further intrigues ahead. A precocious 11-year-old chemist confesses to murder. It is the summer of 1950and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. The sudden expiration of the stranger in a cucumber bed, wacky village characters with ties to the schoolmaster, and a sharp inspector with doubts about the colonel and his enterprising young detective daughter mean complications for Flavia and enormous fun for the reader. About The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Equally adept at quoting 18th-century works, listening at keyholes and picking locks, Flavia learns that her father, Colonel de Luce, may be involved in the suicide of his long-ago schoolmaster and the theft of a priceless stamp. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: The gripping first novel in the cosy Flavia De Luce series Alan Bradley Flavia De Luce Mystery, Fiction, Crime &. In an early 1950s English village, Flavia is preoccupied with retaliating against her lofty older sisters when a rude, redheaded stranger arrives to confront her eccentric father, a philatelic devotee. Fans of Louise Fitzhugh's iconic Harriet the Spy will welcome 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce, the heroine of Canadian journalist Bradley's rollicking debut. Flavia de Luce Books in Order (11 Book Series) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie The Weed That Strings the Hangmans Bag A Red Herring Without Mustard. ![]()
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