Picked by Sarah - August 18th Meeting
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most
loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid,
acid-tongued new heroine.”—Chicago Sun-Times
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw,
young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is
intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on
the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours
later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as
he takes his dying breath.
For Flavia, who is both appalled and
delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish
I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by
far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my
entire life.”
