The Grave's a Fine and Private Place




In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia s grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia s mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.
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| Страниц | 366 |
| Язык | Английский |
| ISBN | 978-1-9848-1732-7 |
In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia s grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia s mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.
| Издательство | Bantam Books |
| Страниц | 366 |
| Язык | Английский |
| ISBN | 978-1-9848-1732-7 |
| Обложка | Мягкий переплёт |
| Бумага | Газетная |
| Иллюстрации | Без иллюстраций |
| Размеры | 105 × 24 × 175 mm |
| Вес, г | 200 |