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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag:

A Flavia de Luce Novel
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Random House Publishing Group, Mar 9, 2010 - Fiction - 372 pages
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley's A Red Herring Without Mustard, discussion questions, and an essay by the author.

Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who’d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What about Porson’s charming but erratic assistant? All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?

 

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Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce #2)

User Review  - Monica - Goodreads

I am really enjoying this series more than I thought. The main character is an 11 y/o girl who lives chemistry, especially poisons, and seems to fall upon murder often. The relationship between the ... Read full review

Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce #2)

User Review  - Sandie - Goodreads

Flavia de Luce is a precocious 11 year old who likes chemistry and science. She befriends a puppeteer who comes to town and then gets murdered. And of course, she sets out to find out what happened ... Read full review

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About the author (2010)

Alan Bradley received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, as well as the first Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award for Children’s Literature. He is the author of many short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. Bradley lives in Malta with his wife and two calculating cats, and is currently working on the next Flavia de Luce mystery, A Red Herring Without Mustard.


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