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Chargement... The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel (Flavia de Luce Mysteries) (édition 2011)par Alan Bradley (Auteur)
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Really enjoyed this mystery set in 1950 and told from the viewpoint of an eleven year old girl, Flavia de Luce. Flavia is the youngest of three sisters whose father is often withdrawn and absorbed in his stamp collection, and whose mother was killed in a climbing accident soon after Flavia was born. Intelligent, imaginative and precocious, she is a keen amateur chemist with a special interest in poisons. Flavia views the adults around her with a shrewd clear eyed understanding and is extremely adept at manipulating them when necessary, but is at the mercy of her cruel older sisters. Her one ally is the manservant at her family's stately home, Dogger, who has psychological issues due to wartime experiences, but is also very astute. This is the second in a series which consists of seven books with an eighth due out this September. On the strength of this, I will definitely read the others.
The secret of the novel’s charm involves the way in which Flavia teeters on the border between precocity and childishness, spouting faux-cynical epithets that result from the fact that her intellectual gifts far outpace her emotional capacity. All in all, it’s a perfectly detailed and credible English village in the Agatha Christie manner, inhabited by people you can believe in and sympathize with. Appartient à la sérieFlavia de Luce (2) Est contenu dansPrix et récompensesListes notables
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The book had tendency to drag once in a while, but Flavia knowledge of chemistry, keen desire to find out about her mother who died before she got to know her and her impatience with her two older sister kept it from dying.
I love learning and I never took chemistry but the main character and sleuth, Flavia made appreciate the value of knowing as much chemistry as possible.
I loved the part about pigeon poop, that was a delightful surprise. The evil person was beautiful drawn, you will hate her too, ( )