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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia De Luce Mystery 1)

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia De Luce Mystery 1)

Author: Alan Bradley

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Published by: Orion

Date Available: 22 January 2009

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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 retired Director of Televison Engineering in the Media Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, where he lectured on screen writing. He is the author of the memoir, THE SHOEBOX BIBLE.

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Cover Type: Hardback

ISBN: 9780752891934

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