The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley

The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who'd do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacy are over - and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity.

This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths - separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads. FROM DAGGER AWARD-WINNING AND internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. V2 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve-without Flavia’s help.Hardcover. Most troubling of all is Porson’s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla.

Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces’ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.ĭoes the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What of the vicar’s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then there’s a German pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths-separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.įlavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over-and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity.

From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders.

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley