Murder has come to Buckshaw, Flavia's home. Soon she is to find a stranger lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. But then a series of mysterious events gets her attention: a dead bird is found on the doormat with a rare Black Penny stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. So far, the summer hasn’t offered anything out of the ordinary for eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, who is the heroine of this story. The novel is set in England in the summer of 1950. It picks up the story where the film trailer ends: the encounter between Flavia and Frank Pemberton, the murderer. The excerpt below is from chapter 23 of the novel. This film trailer promotes the Norwegian edition of the novel "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by Alan Bradley. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.” Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is the heroine of this murder mystery and from this moment on is committed to solving the crime. Set in the English countryside in 1950, it features Flavia de Luce, an 11-year-old amateur sleuth who pulls herself away from her beloved chemistry lab in order to clear her father in a murder investigation. sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year. In 1950 at Buckshaw, the crumbling stately home of the de Luce family, Flavia de Luce is very nearly eleven years old and shes planning revenge on her. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a mystery by Alan Bradley published in 2009. Read an excerpt of this book Add to Wishlist. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. WINNER OF THE AGATHA ARTHUR ELLIS DILYS DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS Wonderfully entertaining. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce Series 1) 384.
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