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Flavia De Luce mysteries

Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938
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1. The sweetness at the bottom of the pie

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
"It is the summer of 1950 - and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. 'I wish I could...

2. The weed that strings the hangman's bag: a Flavia de Luce mystery

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.

3. A red herring without mustard

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Flavia's discovery of an old Gypsy woman who's been attacked in her wagon sends the girl off on an investigation that will reveal more of Buckshaw's secrets as well as new information about Harriet, the mother Flavia never knew.

4. I am half-sick of shadows

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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"Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects....

5. Speaking from among the bones

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters' diaries. What she is "not" accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside...

6. The dead in their vaulted arches: a Flavia de Luce novel

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who was this...

7. As chimney sweepers come to dust: a Flavia de Luce novel

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
"Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review)--takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley"-- "Flavia rules! In this New York Times bestselling series of enchanting mysteries, youthful chemist and aspiring...

8. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd: a Flavia de Luce novel

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in the much anticipated new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her...

9. The grave's a fine and private place: a Flavia de Luce novel

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
""The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their...

10. The golden tresses of the dead: a Flavia de Luce novel

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. "A church is a wonderful place for a wedding," muses Flavia, "surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar." Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the...

11. What time the Sexton's spade doth rust

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series Volume:
11.
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"Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious, moon-faced cousin Undine, who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine's main talent, aside from cultivating disgusting habits, seems to be raising Flavia's dander, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing, trickery, and other assorted mayhems. When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead from a breakfast of poisonous...