The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Flavia de Luce series #1.
“It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia, Daphne, Flavia, damn it.’”
To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising three daughters alone, is seized and accused of murder. In a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story—of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school’s tower thirty years before.
Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is certain: her father is innocent of murder—but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse…
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Flavia de Luce series #1.
“It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia, Daphne, Flavia, damn it.’”
To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising three daughters alone, is seized and accused of murder. In a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story—of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school’s tower thirty years before.
Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is certain: her father is innocent of murder—but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse…
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Flavia de Luce series #1.
“It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia, Daphne, Flavia, damn it.’”
To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising three daughters alone, is seized and accused of murder. In a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story—of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school’s tower thirty years before.
Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is certain: her father is innocent of murder—but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse…
ISBN 978-0-385-34349-7
Alan Bradley
2009
CWA Debut Dagger Award