β Scribed by Bradley, Alan
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From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as "one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature." Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters' diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The ...
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**From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by *USA Today* as "one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature."** Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to di
**_*NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR β’_ NEW YORK TIMES *BESTSELLER** From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by _USA Today_ as βone of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.β __
**A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, "the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (*The Seattle Times*).** Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with
-- The Seattle Times Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop?s Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce?s sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. "A church is a wonderful place for a wedding," muses Flavia, "surrounded as it is