As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &; Flavia de Luce&;&;part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket&;s A Series of Unfortunate Events&; (The New York Times Book Review)&;takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in this captivating mystery.BONUS: This edition includes &;The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse: A Flavia de Luce Story.&;Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote&;s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia&;s first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a bedroom chimney. Now, while attending classes, making friends (and enemies), and assessing the school&;s stern headmistress and faculty (one of whom is an acquitted murderess), Flavia is on the hunt for the victim&;s identity and time of death, as well as suspects, motives, and means. Rumors swirl that Miss Bodycote&;s is haunted, and that several girls have disappeared without a trace. When it comes to solving multiple mysteries, Flavia is up to the task&;but her true destiny has yet to be revealed.Praise for As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust &;Flavia de Luce [is] perhaps contemporary crime fiction&;s most original character&;to say she is Pippi Longstocking with a Ph.D. in chemistry (speciality: poisons) barely begins to describe her.&;&;Maclean&;s &;Another treat for readers of all ages . . . [As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust] maintains the high standards Bradley set from the start.&;&;Booklist &;Exceptional . . . [The] intriguing setup only gets better, and Bradley makes Miss Bodycote&;s a suitably Gothic setting for Flavia&;s sleuthing. Through it all, her morbid narrative voice continues to charm.&;&;Publishers Weekly (starred review) &;Even after all these years, Flavia de Luce is still the world&;s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth.&;&;The Seattle Times &;Plot twists come faster than Canadian snowfall. . . . Bradley&;s sense of observation is as keen as gung-ho scientist Flavia&;s. . . . The results so far are seven sparkling Flavia de Luce mysteries.&;&;Library JournalBook Details
Length
NA
Publisher
Random House Digital
Released
Jan 06, 2015
Language
english
ISBN
9780345539953
Age Level
General Adult
Attributes
Text to Speech Enabled