Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

2010

In the summer of 1950, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, a precocious chemist with a penchant for poisons, finds her quiet English countryside existence shattered by a murder. When a dying man turns up in her family's cucumber patch, Flavia, both horrified and thrilled, sees it as the most fascinating event of her young life. Fans of witty, unconventional sleuths and charming historical mysteries will delight in Flavia's unique investigative methods.

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