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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Flavia de Luce (Related to this series)
- Author
- Alan Bradley
- Narrator
- Emilia Fox
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 4 February 2010
- Run Time
- 6 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Soon Flavia discovers something even more shocking in the cucumber patch, and it's clear that the snipe was a bird of very ill omen indeed. As the police descend on Buckshaw, Flavia decides it is up to her to piece together the clues and solve the puzzle. Who was the man she heard her father arguing with? What was the snipe doing in England at all? Who or what is the Ulster Avenger? And, most peculiar of all, who took a slice of Mrs Mullet's unspeakable custard pie that had been cooling by the window...?
Read by Emilia Fox
(p) 2010 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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Praise for the cosy crime Flavia de Luce Mysteries - perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders:
The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favouriteMail on Sunday
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Certain to become a national treasure
Daily Mail
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Delightfully entertaining
Guardian
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Flavia is enchanting
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A breath of fresh air to the world of period-piece sleuthing
Independent
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Flavia is mercilessly addictive
Daily Telegraph
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A clever, witty and totally gripping read with lots of surprises
Essentials
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At once precocious and endearing, Flavia is a marvellous character. Quirkily appealing, this is definitely a crime novel with a difference
Choice
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It's like entering the lost world of the Mitford sisters where the girls are allowed to run completely wild
Crime Squad
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Hilarious, eccentric and mischievous
Deadly Pleasures
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Engaging, entertaining, bright and breezy; and above all, great fun!
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Details
- Author
- Alan Bradley
- Narrator
- Emilia Fox
- Duration
- 6 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 February 2010
- ISBN
- 9781409113447
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives
Synopsis
For very nearly eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce country seat, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare stamp neatly impaled on its beak. Even more astonishing was the effect of the dead bird on her stamp-collector father, who appeared to be genuinely frightened.Soon Flavia discovers something even more shocking in the cucumber patch, and it's clear that the snipe was a bird of very ill omen indeed. As the police descend on Buckshaw, Flavia decides it is up to her to piece together the clues and solve the puzzle. Who was the man she heard her father arguing with? What was the snipe doing in England at all? Who or what is the Ulster Avenger? And, most peculiar of all, who took a slice of Mrs Mullet's unspeakable custard pie that had been cooling by the window...?Read by Emilia Fox(p) 2010 Orion Publishing Group
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