The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
By: Alan Bradley.
Series: Flavia de Luce #1
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780385342308
Subjects: Detectives -- England -- Fiction; Motherless families -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: It was as black in the closet as old blood.
Description: Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself.
Notes: A Flavia de Luce Mystery