I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
All is not well at Buckshaw, home of Flavia de Luce. With the family finances in a parlous state, Flavia's father has, with deep misgivings, rented Buckshaw to a film company for location shooting. Naturally enough, director, crew and stars do nothing to endear themselves to the household—especially the servants—until, when a heavy snowfall cuts off Bishop's Lacey from the...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Speaking from Among the Bones
The first thing I saw was a hand, and then the face, a ghastly inhuman mask... 'I do believe we've found Mr Collicutt,' I said. When the tomb of St Tancred is opened, no one expects to find the body of the organist, lying in a pool of blood, his handsome features covered by a gas mask. Eleven-year-old Flavia de...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
Was their killer still at large? Could their killer be here at Buckshaw...? Two deaths, ten years apart, give Flavia de Luce the distraction she needs at a time when her family are more remote and dysfunctional than usual. Especially when a bizarre series of deadly events is casting a long shadow over everyone at Buckshaw. For Flavia, a gruesome...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favourite. Mail on Sunday CURIOSITY WON'T KILL THIS CAT... Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last, but her homecoming is overshadowed by news of her father's illness. Forbidden from visiting Colonel de Luce in hospital, Flavia busies herself in the village, but she soon makes a macabre discovery:...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust
It all began with that awful business about my mother... Flavia de Luce's world is turned upside down when she is banished to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada — her mother Harriet's old boarding school. With its forbidding headmistress, intimidating teachers and bizarre rules, adapting to Miss Bodycote's could be a matter of life and death. But Flavia is...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
I was lying dead in the churchyard... So says eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce - but soon a murder provides a gruesome distraction from her own death. A travelling puppet show arrives in the sleepy English village of Bishop's Lacey, and everyone gathers to watch a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall. But a shadow is cast...PaperbackSold Out
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
The Golden Tresses of the Dead introduces Flavia de Luce, the twelve-year-old chemist and amateur detective eager to turn professional. She and her father's valet, Dogger, have founded a detective agency, Arthur Dogger & Associates, and unexpectedly stumble into their first case during the revelry at her sister Ophelia's wedding reception. After an eventful ceremony with a missing best man...PaperbackSold Out
A Red Herring Without Mustard
'You frighten me,' the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' So begins eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce's third adventure through the charming but deceptively dark byways of the village of Bishop's Lacey. What the fortune teller in fact claimed to see was a vision of Flavia's mother, Harriet, who died on a mountainside in...PaperbackSold Out
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