Mystery
A Red Herring Without Mustard
2011·432 pages
Eleven-year-old chemist-sleuth Flavia de Luce probes a bludgeoned fortune-teller and a second corpse amid 1950s English village secrets.
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Eleven-year-old chemist-sleuth Flavia de Luce probes a bludgeoned fortune-teller and a second corpse amid 1950s English village secrets.
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Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey--mysteries involving a missing tot, a fortune-teller, and a corpse in Flavia's own backyard. Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned in the wee h...
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Bludgeoning assault and corpses found; murders without graphic gore
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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Secret riverside sect rites; village church backdrop
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Gypsy fortune-telling and soothsaying central; secret ritual practices
Political content
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Period social attitudes toward Romani communities
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Past child abduction; assault on elderly woman; harsh sibling cruelty
Other
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