This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”īONUS: This edition contains a The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie discussion guide and an excerpt from Alan Bradley's The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag.įans of Louise Fitzhugh's iconic Harriet the Spy will welcome 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce, the heroine of Canadian journalist Bradley's rollicking debut. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t.
Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.įor Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine.” -Chicago Sun-Times sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year.
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