The weed that strings the hangman's bag [LP] a Flavia de Luce mystery

Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.

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Main Author: Bradley, C. Alan, 1938-
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2010.
Edition:Large print ed.
Series:Bradley, Alan, 1938- Flavia de Luce mystery ; 2.
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Summary:Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.
Item Description:"Thorndike Press large print core."
Physical Description:481 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9781410429117
1410429113
Author Notes:Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He studied electronic engineering and worked at numerous radio and television stations in Ontario and at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in Toronto. Later, he became the Director of Television Engineering in the media centre at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK, where he remained for 25 years before taking early retirement to write in 1994.

He is the author of the Flavia de Luce Mystery series, all 6 of which have been New York Times bestsellers. In 2009 he won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. He also writes non-fiction books including The Shoebox Bible and Ms. Holmes of Baker Street.

(Bowker Author Biography)