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The sweetness at the bottom of the pie

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has...

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Main Author: Bradley, C. Alan, 1938-
Other Authors: Entwistle, Jayne.
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2009.
Subjects:
De Luce, Flavia > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Detectives > England > Fiction.
Motherless families > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Downloadable audio books.
Mystery fiction
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Summary: In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak.
Item Description: Downloadable audio file.
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Unabridged.
Duration: 9:53:44.
Playing Time: 09:53:44
Format: Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 142213 KB; MP3 file size: 276088 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN: 9781415964491
1415964491
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.

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