- Murder, Girls, Investigation, Fiction
Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. 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.
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Alan Bradley
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Delacorte Press, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780385343466
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