The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley

The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth (The Seattle Times).

Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. A church is a wonderful place for a wedding, muses Flavia, surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar. Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the chemical nature of poisons, she has solved many mysteries, sharpening her considerable detection skills to the point where she had little choice but to turn professional. So Flavia and dependable Dogger, estate gardener and sounding board extraordinaire, set up shop at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, eager to serve--not so simple an endeavor with her odious little moon-faced cousin, Undine, constantly underfoot. But Flavia and Dogger persevere. Little does she know that their first case will be extremely close to home, beginning with an unwelcome discovery in Ophelia's wedding cake: a human finger.

Praise for The Golden Tresses of the Dead

Delightful . . . The mysteries in Mr. Bradley's books are engaging, but the real lure is Ms. de Luce, the irreverent youngster.--The Wall Street Journal

A ghoulish question is at the heart of Bradley's excellent tenth Flavia de Luce novel. . . . Bradley, who has few peers at combining fair-play clueing with humor and has fun mocking genre conventions, shows no sign of running out of ideas.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Alan Bradley is the author of several short tales, children's stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible, which has been a New York Times bestseller. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, his debut Flavia de Luce novel, won the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association, as well as the Dilys Winn Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. The Weed That Threads the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Speaking from Among the Bones, As Chimney Sweepers Fall to Dust, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, and The Grave's a Fine and Private Place are his other Flavia de Luce novels, as well as the ebook short story The Strange Case of the Copper Corpse.

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ISBN 13	9780345540027
ISBN 10	0345540026
Title	The Golden Tresses of the Dead
Author	Alan Bradley
Series	Flavia De Luce
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2019-01-22
Number of pages	352
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.