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The grave's a fine and private place / Alan Bradley.

Bradley, C. Alan, 1938- (author.).

Summary:

In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder--although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.

Record details

ISBN: 9781432847029 (large print : hardcover)
Physical Description: 457 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018