![]() ![]() ![]() For Flavia, the summer begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw: “ I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. And in the early morning Flavia finds a red-headed stranger lying in the cucumber patch and watches him take his dying breath. A mysterious late-night visitor argues with her aloof father, Colonel de Luce, behind closed doors. The summer of 1950 hasn’t offered up anything out of the ordinary for eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce: bicycle explorations around the village, keeping tabs on her neighbours, relentless battles with her older sisters, Ophelia and Daphne, and brewing up poisonous concoctions while plotting revenge in their home’s abandoned Victorian chemistry lab, which Flavia has claimed for her own.īut then a series of mysterious events gets Flavia’s attention: A dead bird is found on the doormat, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. ![]() Winner of the 2007 Crime Writers’ Association Debut DaggerĪ delightfully dark English mystery, featuring precocious young sleuth Flavia de Luce and her eccentric family. ![]()
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