NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 this captivating mystery. BONUS: This
edition includes “The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse: A Flavia de
Luce Story.” Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments
her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to
Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother,
Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet
risen on Flavia’s first day in captivity when a gift lands at her
feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is
a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a bedroom chimney.
Now, while attending classes, making friends (and enemies), and
assessing the school’s stern headmistress and faculty (one of whom
is an acquitted murderess), Flavia is on the hunt for the victim’s
identity and time of death, as well as suspects, motives, and means.
Rumors swirl that Miss Bodycote’s is haunted, and that several girls
have disappeared without a trace. When it comes to solving multiple
mysteries, Flavia is up to the task—but her true destiny has yet to
be revealed. Praise for As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust “Flavia de
Luce [is] perhaps contemporary crime fiction’s most original
character—to say she is Pippi Longstocking with a Ph.D. in chemistry
(speciality: poisons) barely begins to describe her.”—Maclean’s
“Another treat for readers of all ages . . . [As Chimney Sweepers
Come to Dust] maintains the high standards Bradley set from the
start.”—Booklist “Exceptional . . . [The] intriguing setup only
gets better, and Bradley makes Miss Bodycote’s a suitably Gothic
setting for Flavia’s sleuthing. Through it all, her morbid narrative
voice continues to charm.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Even after all these years, Flavia de Luce is still the world’s
greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth.”—The Seattle
Times “Plot twists come faster than Canadian snowfall. . . .
Bradley’s sense of observation is as keen as gung-ho scientist
Flavia’s. . . . The results so far are seven sparkling Flavia de
Luce mysteries.”—Library Journal
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A Flavia de Luce Novel
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780345539953
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Random House Digital Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter