![]() ![]() ![]() And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding storyof 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 schools tower thirty years before. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life. I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasnt. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. It is the summer of 1950and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavias family calls home. ![]() In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. ![]()
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