I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
β Scribed by Alan Bradley
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Delacorte Press
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0345532155
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β¦ Synopsis
" Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate."--USA Today
ALAN BRADLEY, AUTHOR OF THE MOST AWARD-WINNING SERIES DEBUT OF ANY YEAR, RETURNS WITH ANOTHER IRRESISTIBLE FLAVIA DE LUCE NOVEL.
"[Alan] Bradley has created one of the most original, charming, devilishly creative and hilarious detectives of any age or any time."--Bookreporter
It's Christmastime, and Flavia de Luce--an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry--is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop's Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for the evening's shocking...
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