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The grave's a fine and private place

Bradley, C. Alan, 1938- author, Bradley, C. Alan, 1938- Flavia de Luce mystery

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\"\"The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth\" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable 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 female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes against her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself as Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder--although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Subject: De Luce, Flavia (Fictitious character) Fiction. / Girls England Fiction. / Child detectives Fiction. / Murder Investigation Fiction. / Clergy Fiction. / False testimony Fiction. / Sisters Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780345539991

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9199.4.B7324 G73 2018	1	BOOK	GENERAL