Bradley, C. Alan, 1938-

The weed that strings the hangman's bag / Alan Bradley. - London : Orion, 2010. - 342 pages ; 24 cm. - Flavia de Luce mystery 2. A Flavia de Luce mystery ; 2 . - Bradley, C. Alan, 1938- Flavia de Luce mystery 2. Bradley, C. Alan, 1938- Flavia de Luce mystery. .

"Flavia de Luce returns in..."--Cover.

"Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over - and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who'd do such a thing, and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments. Flavia sets out from the de Luces' crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop's Lacey's deadliest secrets. Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she's letting on? What of the vicar's odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Most troubling of all is Porson's assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla."--Publisher description.

9781409117605

2009043002


Detectives--England--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Women private investigators--England--Fiction.
De Luce, Flavia (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Women detectives--England--Fiction.


England--Fiction.


Detective and mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.