![]() Most troubling of all is Porsons assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces' crumbling family mansion in search of Bishops Laceys deadliest secrets.ĭoes the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than shes letting on? What of the vicar's odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then theres a German pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who'd do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. ![]() This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deathsseparated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.įlavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishops Lacy are overand then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. ![]() ![]() ![]() From Dagger Awardwinning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. ![]()
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