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Sebbene non sia praticante, a Flavia de Luce piace l'atmosfera della parrocchia in questo cinquecentesimo anniversario della morte di San Tancredi. Si sta per aprire il suo sepolcro e il serafico vicario dirige sventatamente i lavori. Dietro la mastodontica pietra tombale, nell'antro dove dovrebbero trovarsi le sante ossa, spunta il cadavere del signor Collicut, mascherato con un aggeggio di gomma. Un duplice mistero: come è morto Collicut, e dove sono finite le ossa di San Tancredi?

Flavia de Luce, l'audace undicenne con un talento sherlockiano per la chimica e per il delitto, si trova presa in un groviglio che questa volta la tocca negli affetti più cari. Alla stazione dismessa di Bishop's Lacey è attesa Lady Harriet, la madre dispersa dieci anni prima tra le nevi dell'Himalaya. Ma ciò che scende dal treno è solo la bara di Harriet con la spoglia mortale preservata dai ghiacci, onorata da altissime personalità statali.

Un triste Natale si profila per l'undicenne Flavia de Luce e nemmeno gli amati esperimenti di chimica, da un po' di tempo tendenti irresistibilmente a sintetizzare veleni, riescono a consolarla. La tenuta di Buckshaw, con il parco innevato e la magione sterminata, dovrà ospitare un'intera troupe cinematografica per girare un film ambientato in una tipica casa nobiliare di campagna inglese. L'invasione si rivela meno noiosa del previsto.

Un banale guasto al furgone costringe il più grande burattinaio inglese, Rupert Porson a fermarsi per qualche giorno a Bishop's Lacey, l'immaginario paesino inglese negli anni Cinquanta scenario delle avventure di Flavia de Luce. Quale migliore occasione per uno spettacolo di marionette? Ma mentre «Il fagiolo magico» sta per concludersi fra gli entusiasmi del pubblico, ecco abbattersi sulla scena proprio Rupert, ucciso da una scossa elettrica e non si tratta di un incidente ma di un vero e proprio omicidio.

Flavia de Luce fa un'orrida scoperta. Nell'orto dei cetrioli, proprio sotto la finestra della sua camera da letto, in mezzo agli attrezzi disordinati del bravo Dogger, il giardiniere autista tuttofare, inciampa in piena notte in un corpo semisepolto; esalando l'ultimo respiro, l'uomo sussurra una strana parola: "Vale!". Poco prima, dietro la porta di una delle infinite stanze di Buckshaw, il castello di famiglia, aveva sentito parole inquietanti pronunciate in una conversazione del padre con uno sconosciuto: "Twining? Il vecchio Tazza? È morto da trent'anni...". "E lo abbiamo ucciso noi".

'You frighten me,' the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' For Flavia de Luce, the old gypsy's words open up old wounds and new possibilities. Is she a faker, or is there some truth to her powers? And when the village is rocked by another ghastly murder, how...

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950—and a series of inexplicable events...

The absence of Flavia DeLuce’s mother, Harriet, has always cast a shadow, since her presumed death in a mountaineering accident in Tibet. Now, astonishingly, a specially commissioned train is bringing Harriet back to Buckshaw. But rather than putting the past finally to rest, Harriet's return...

The villagers of Bishop’s Lacey are holding their collective breath as St Tancred’s tomb in the local church is about to be opened after five hundred years. Inveterate eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce is first at the scene, but the body she finds lying there is not that of a desiccated...

Carrie Jade is a chilling true-crime account of Samantha Cookes, a master manipulator who spent more than a decade reinventing herself across the UK and Ireland with an arsenal of false identities. From au pair and nanny to therapist, teacher, psychologist, even terminally ill author and...

Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers secrets that bring the greatest shock of her life. **** Poisonous mushrooms, pestilent cousins - and a most perplexing murder... There's a new arrival at Buckshaw - Flavia de...

Flavia de Luce, the twelve-year-old chemist and amateur detective is eager to turn professional. She and her father's valet, Dogger, have founded a detective agency, Arthur Dogger & Associates, and unexpectedly cut into their first case during the revelry at her sister Ophelia's wedding...

When a mysterious puppet show arrives in Bishop's Lacey, death is not far behind... a grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall reaches back to an earlier crime that has cast a shadow over the village for years. Flavia's investigations test her powers of...

When Flavia de Luce is banished to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada she’s soon on familiar ground, when, on her first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. Girls have been disappearing with alarming regularity...

All is not well at Buckshaw, home of Flavia de Luce... With the family finances in a parlous state, Flavia's father has rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. When a heavy snowfall cuts the village off, the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance in the parish...

Flavia is enjoying the summer, spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family. Languishing in boredom, she drags a slack hand in the water, and catches her fingers in the open mouth of a drowned corpse. Flavia needs to put her super-sleuthing skills to the test to...

Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last, but her homecoming is overshadowed by news of her father's illness. Forbidden from visiting him in hospital, Flavia busies herself in the village, but she soon makes a macabre discovery: the corpse of a reclusive woodcarver, in an empty...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Hailed as “a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes” by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in a Christmas mystery from award-winning author Alan Bradley. Don’t miss Flavia de Luce in the upcoming major motion picture Flavia Girl Detective! In spite of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers a secret that brings the greatest shock of her life. “I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best female detective I’ve...

***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES*** AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers secrets that bring the greatest...