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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. In the summer of 1950, inexplicable events strike Buckshaw, her decaying mansion home. A dead bird is on the doorstep, a postage stamp on its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man dying in the cucumber patch. His last words must save her father imprisoned for his murder.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
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- Released
- 2009
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alan Bradley
- Publisher
- Orion
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0752891936
- ISBN13
- 9780752891934
- Tags
- Fiction, Children's Books, Mystery & Thriller, Natural sciences, Family, Murders, Detective Fiction, Series, England, Gifts for younger schoolchildren, Middle Grade, Girls, Children's Mystery, Poisons, Poisoning, Canadian Literature, Postage Stamps, Child Hero, English Countryside
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. In the summer of 1950, inexplicable events strike Buckshaw, her decaying mansion home. A dead bird is on the doorstep, a postage stamp on its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man dying in the cucumber patch. His last words must save her father imprisoned for his murder.