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But then her father confesses to the crime, for the same reason, and it’s up to Flavia to free him of suspicion. Or could he have been killed by the family’s loyal handyman, Dogger… or by the Colonel himself! At that moment, Flavia commits herself to solving the crime - even if it means keeping information from the village police, in order to protect her family. Mullet’s custard pie, and none of the de Luces would have dared to eat the awful thing. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”ĭid the stranger die of poisoning? There was a piece missing from Mrs. 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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