The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Mystery

From Dagger Awardâ€“winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fictionâ€™s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deathsâ€”separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.

Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishopâ€™s Lacy are overâ€”and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but whoâ€™d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Lucesâ€™ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishopâ€™s Laceyâ€™s deadliest secrets.

Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than sheâ€™s letting on? What of the vicarâ€™s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then thereâ€™s a German pilot obsessed with the BrontÃ« sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porsonâ€™s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables canâ€™t solveâ€”without Flaviaâ€™s help. But in getting so close to whoâ€™s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?
Country USA
Brand Random House Audio Publishing Group
Manufacturer Random House Audio
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2013-09-17
UnitCount 8
Format Audiobook
EANs 9780804148955

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Audio Publishing Group
Manufacturer	Random House Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2013-09-17
UnitCount	8
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9780804148955

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Mystery

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