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The sweetness at the bottom of the pie : Flavia de Luce/ Alan Bradley.

Bradley, Alan, 1938- (author).

Summary:

To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of 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 certain: her father is innocent of murder—but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse...

Record details

ISBN: 9780385665834
ISBN: 0385665830
Physical Description: 373 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: [Toronto] : Anchor Canada, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes an excerpt from the sequel, The weed that strings the hangman's bag.
Awards Note:	Barry Award for Best First Novel (2010), Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2010), Anthony Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2010), Dilys Award (2010), Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel (2010), Agatha Award for Best First Novel (2009), CWA Debut Dagger (2007), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction & Mystery/Thriller (2009)