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A red herring without mustard a Flavia de Luce mystery

Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had abducted a local child years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the b...

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Main Author: Bradley, C. Alan, 1938-
Other Authors: Entwistle, Jayne.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2011.
Edition: Library ed.
Subjects:
De Luce, Flavia > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Girls > England > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > England > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > England.
Audiobooks.
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Summary: Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had abducted a local child years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the bliss of settling scores; revenge is a delightful pastime when one has two odious older sisters. But how could this crime be connected to the missing baby? Had it something to do with the weird sect who met at the river to practice their secret rites? While still pondering the possibilities, Flavia stumbles upon another corpse, that of a notorious layabout who had been caught prowling about the de Luce's drawing room.
Item Description: Subtitle from container.
Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Physical Description: 9 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9780307704795 :
0307704793 :
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)

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