I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce, #4)
by Alan Bradley
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"Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects. But Flavia de Luce is more than ready to solve the wintry country-house murder. She'll have to be quick-witted, though, to negotiate the volatile chemicals of a cast and crew starting to crack--and locked in a house with a murderer!"--
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Flawia de Luce: Tych cieni oczy znieść nie mogą
2012, Vesper
Paperback
in Polish
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I am half-sick of shadows: a Flavia de Luce novel
2012, Anchor Canada
in English
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: (Flavia de Luce Mystery, Book 4)
2012, Random House Publishing Group, Bantam books paperback, Random House Publishing Group
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce, #4)
2011, Delacorte Press
in English
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I am half-sick of shadows: a Flavia de Luce novel
2011, Thorndike Press
in English
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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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