A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385342322 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had abducted a local child years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the bliss of settling scores; revenge is a delightful pastime when one has two odious older sisters. Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey—mysteries involving a missing tot, a fortune-teller, and a corpse in Flavia’s own backyard. Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. But how could this crime be connected to the missing baby? Had it something to do with the weird sect who met at the river to practice their secret rites? While still pondering the possibilities, Flavia stumbles upon another corpse—that of a notorious layabout who had been caught prowling about the de Luce’s drawing room.Pedaling Gladys, her faithful bicycle, across the countryside in search of clues t
Alan Bradley is the internationally bestselling author of many short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. Bradley lives in Malta with his wife and two calculating cats, and is currently at work on the next Flavia de Luce mystery, I Am Half Sick of Shadows.. His second Flavia de Luce mystery is The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag. His first Flavia de Luce m
The third enthralling adventure of Flavia de Luce. This charming series of novels written by Alan Bradley is positively addictive. You can start at any point, with any of the three, but Flavia along with her family, friends and neighbors in the tiny British hamlet of Bishop's Lacey will surely capture your imagination, your sympathy, or yo. Winning English village mystery with highly original sleuth Blue in Washington "A Red Herring Without Mustard" features Britain's most precocious 11-year old and self-appointed detective, Flavia de Luce, and sets her on a path to resolve a violent assault on a gypsy woman who has just read her fortune (and had her tent burned down for her trouble); the killing of a l. Amazing series!! What an amazing, incredibly fresh breath of spring these books bring to a genre already brimming with genius! The Flavia de Luce series epitomizes all the best in British murder mystery with an original twist and flair: eleven year old Flavia herself. She is precocious, vulnerable, fearles
Sound complicated? It is, but Bradley handles it so well you hardly notice. Nowhere is that more visible than in her relationships with her distant father and her sisters, who constantly taunt her. Think of Flavia as a new Sherlock in the making. Father is auctioning his beloved stamps and selling the family silver. Buttressed by consistently quirky characters and an English country-village backdrop, Flavias chatterbox narration reveals the amateur sleuths obnoxiousness as well as her intellegence and irrepressible curiosity. --Stephanie Zvirin . In her latest adventure, the family is on the verge of bankruptcy. From Booklist Stubborn, precocious Flavia de Luce seems old beyond her 11 years, but readers of her previous encounters with dead bodies and mystery know she has a vulnerable side, as well. The upshot is a spirited, surprisingly innocent tale, despite murky goings-on at its center. In the midst of this crisis, the irrepressible youn