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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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In the wake of a family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a…
needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something else: a human head, attached to a human body. Sequel to "Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd". Followed by " The golden tresses of the dead". 2018.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul…
bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had abducted a local child years ago? How could this crime be connected to the missing baby? Sequel to "The weed that strings the hangman's bag". Followed by " I Am Half-Sick of Shadows". 2011.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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1950s England. Shortly after the events of “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie”, eleven-year-old chemist Flavia must unravel…
two more mysteries. Puppeteer Rupert Porson’s arrival in the hamlet leads to his death and to the re-examination of a child’s supposedly accidental hanging five years ago. 2011.