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It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop's Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for the evening's shocking conclusion: a body found, past midnight, strangled to death with a length of film. But who among the assembled guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her disposal to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.
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Flavia de Luce - 4: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Alan Bradley
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Flavia de Luce - 4: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
- Subtitle
- A Flavia de Luce Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alan Bradley
- Publisher
- Random House Doubleday
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 297
- ISBN10
- 0385344015
- ISBN13
- 9780385344012
- Tags
- Fiction, Children's Books, Mystery & Thriller, Holidays, Christmas, Detective Fiction, Middle Grade, Children's Mystery, Canadian Literature
- First published
- 2011
- Original title
- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop's Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for the evening's shocking conclusion: a body found, past midnight, strangled to death with a length of film. But who among the assembled guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her disposal to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.