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THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE
A FLAVIA DE LUCE MYSTERY BOOK 1 |
| By: |
Alan Bradley |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0752891936 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780752891934 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
20 January, 2009 |
| Series: |
Flavia de Luce Mystery |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
A delightfully dark and original period crime novel featuring an irresistible young sleuth and her eccentric family. |
| Synopsis: |
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 acts of revenge against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemistry laboratory, that is - has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity, and a conspiracy that reaches back into the de Luce family's murky past.Flavia and her family are brilliant creations, adding a darkly playful and wonderfully atmospheric flavour to a plot of delightful ingenuity. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
| Prizes: |
Winner of CWA Dagger awards 2007 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |