Mystery
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
2000·400 pages
Precocious 11-year-old chemist Flavia de Luce probes a puppeteer’s murder in 1950s England, unearthing dark village secrets with wit and poison lore.
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Precocious 11-year-old chemist Flavia de Luce probes a puppeteer’s murder in 1950s England, unearthing dark village secrets with wit and poison lore.
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From Dagger Award--winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths--separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacy are over...
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
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Speaking from Among the Bones
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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
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As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
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Book 8
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
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The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Puppeteer electrocuted on stage; past child death; poisoned chocolates
Profanity
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Rare mild period language; no strong profanity
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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Village vicar and church settings feature in the story
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content
Political content
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Light post-WWII English village backdrop; German pilot character
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Past death of a child; sibling cruelty; emotional neglect themes
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