The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley

ISBN 0752891944(978-075-289194-1)
RRP $32.99 February 2009
Orion Fiction Paperback (234 x 153)

It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia - when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is - has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity and a conspiracy that reaches back into the de Luce family's murky past.

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