01915cam a2200361 i 4500 623505890 TxAuBib 20091102120000.0 080922s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008041787 9780385342308 0385342306 TXKPL eng rda TXKPL TxAuBib rda Bradley, Alan, 1938-, author. The sweetness at the bottom of the pie / By Alan Bradley. New York : Delacorte Press, 2009. 373 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Flavia De Luce novel, A a"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." --from fantasticfiction.com. Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.6 16 136784. 20091102. De Luce, Flavia Fictitious character Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Motherless families Fiction. Cozy mysteries. Mystery fiction. Fiction. Flavia De Luce novel, A. TXKPL