A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385343469 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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His other Flavia de Luce novels are The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Speaking from Among the Bones, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, and As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust. Alan Bradley is the internationally bestselling author of many short st
The third enthralling adventure of Flavia de Luce. J. Lesley This charming series of novels written by Alan Bradley is positively addictive. You can start at any point, with any of the three, but Flavia along with her family, friends and neighbors in the tiny British hamlet of Bishop's Lacey will surely capture your imagination, your sympathy, or your heart. Probab. Blue in Washington said Winning English village mystery with highly original sleuth. "A Red Herring Without Mustard" features Britain's most precocious 11-year old and self-appointed detective, Flavia de Luce, and sets her on a path to resolve a violent assault on a gypsy woman who has just read her fortune (and had her tent burned down for her trouble); the killing of a local eccentric w. Amazing series!! Deborah What an amazing, incredibly fresh breath of spring these books bring to a genre already brimming with genius! The Flavia de Luce series epitomizes all the best in British murder mystery with an original twist and flair: eleven year old Flavia herself. She is precocious, vulnerable, fearless, funny and dow
Think of Flavia as a new Sherlock in the making. The upshot is a spirited, surprisingly innocent tale, despite murky goings-on at its center. Nowhere is that more visible than in her relationships with her distant father and her sisters, who constantly taunt her. In the midst of this crisis, the irrepressible young snoop investigates the beating of a gypsy fortune-teller and the murder of a local thief, which seem somehow connected to a group of religious eccentrics, an antique shop, a missing baby, and a strange, fishy smell. In her latest adventure, the family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Father is auctioning his beloved stamps and selling the family silver. Buttressed by consistently quirky characters a
Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer abducted a local child years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the bliss of settling scores; revenge is a delightful pastime when one has two odious older sisters. But how could this crime be connected to the missing baby? As the red herrings pile up, Flavia must sort through clues fishy and foul to untangle dark deeds and dangerous secrets.. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAlan Bradley, author of the most award-winning series debut of any year, returns with another irresistible Flavia de Luce novel In the hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey, the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce had asked a Gypsy woman to tell her fortune—never expecting to later stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned almost to death in the wee hours in her own caravan