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…
Read Alikes for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley; Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh; The Case of the Gilded Fly Edmond Crispin; The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths; The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall
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…
Read Alikes for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley; Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh; The Case of the Gilded Fly Edmond Crispin; The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths; The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall
ISBN 978-0-385-34349-7
Alan Bradley
2009
CWA Debut Dagger Award
