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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

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In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

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Orion, Bantam Books
Language
English
Pages
400

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Cover of: Sladostʹ na korochke piroga
Sladostʹ na korochke piroga
2015, AST
in Russian
Cover of: Les étranges talents de Flavia de Luce
Les étranges talents de Flavia de Luce
2010, Lattès
Texte imprimé / in French
Cover of: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2010, Bantam Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2010, Bantam Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2009, Delacorte Press
in English
Cover of: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2009, Orion, Bantam Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Xian bing de mi mi
Xian bing de mi mi
2009, Man you zhe wen hua chu ban, Da yan chu ban ji di fa xing
in Chinese - Chu ban
Cover of: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2009, Thorndike Press
Hardcover (Large print) in English
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2009, Magna Large Print Books
in English - Large print ed.
Cover of: Flavia de los extraños talentos
Flavia de los extraños talentos
2009, Planeta, Planeta Publishing

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Published in
London, UK
Series
Flavia de Luce #1

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR9199.4.B7324 S94 2009, PR9199.4.B7324

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
400

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26155612M
Internet Archive
sweetnessatbotto0000brad_i4b0
ISBN 10
0752883216
ISBN 13
9780752883212
Wikidata
Q119149441

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September 2, 2024 Edited by Zora Elbe Edited without comment.
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