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  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  • By: Alan Bradley
  • Narrated by: Emilia Fox
  • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (39 ratings)

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By: Alan Bradley
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It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch.

The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more.

Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia - when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is - has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity, and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family's murky past.Flavia and her family are brilliant creations, a darkly playful and wonderfully atmospheric flavour to a plot of delightful ingenuity.

©2009 Alad Bradley (P)2010 Orion Publishing Group

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the Mitford girls ride again

Wonderfully upper-crustie with bounders and bricks and the spiffing adventures of a Mitfordesque precocious character. The author captures the class vibrations without missing a beat. Top stuff!!!

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