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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery Book 1(Flavia de Luce Mystery)


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It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia - when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is - has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family's murky past. Flavia and her family are brilliant creations, a darkly playful and wonderfully atmospheric flavour to a plot of delightful ingenuity.

About the Author :
Alan Bradley is a former professor at the University of Saskatchewan, where he lectured on screen writing. He is the author of a memoir, The Shoebox Bible.

Review :
Told through the observations of science-experimenting snoop of an 11-year-old girl, this jolly-good-fun murder mystery is as indulgent as a Bunty annual. Flavia de Luce, daughter to a philatelist colonel father and late mother...proves herself as indomitable a sleuth as you would expect a girl who says ''oh, piffle'' to be - GOOD HOUSEKEEPING (It) reads like a cross between Dodie Smith's I Capture The Castle (posh family fallen on hard times, dead mother, disengaged father, crumbling pile) and the Addams family (Flavia has a well-appointed laboratory where she makes poisons to test on her spiteful elder sisters). A strong plot, involving philately, ornithology and prestidigitation, and a wonderful supporting cast make this Canadian novelist's debut delightfully entertaining - GUARDIAN - Laura Wilson This is a charming period crime novel with a grotesque gallery of characters reminiscent of the inhabitants of Mervyn Peake's cult Gormeghast trilogy. It's 1950, and Flavia de Luce, a precocious 11-year-old with a fully equipped chemistry lab at the top of Buckshaw, the crumbling family seat, discovers a body in the cucumber patch. When Flavia announces this at breakfast, her news is met with indifference by her wonderfully appalling older sisters Ophelia and Daphne (''How very like you'') - DAILY MAIL - Carla McKay This warm and funny novel begins when Flavia finds a de


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780752891934
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Height: 224 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Weight: 482 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0752891936
  • Publisher Date: 22 Jan 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Flavia de Luce Mystery
  • Sub Title: A Flavia de Luce Mystery Book 1
  • Width: 141 mm


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