The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
WINNER OF THE AGATHA * ARTHUR ELLIS * DILYS * DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS"Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine."--Chicago Sun-Times
It is the summer of 1950-and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.
For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."
BONUS: This edition contains a The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie discussion guide and an excerpt from Alan Bradley's The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag.
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 | 9780385343497 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385343493 |
| Title | The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie |
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| Series | Flavia De Luce |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 2010-01-19 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Winner of Agatha Award (Best First Novel) 2009, Winner of Dilys Winn Award 2009 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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