![]() ![]() ![]() A backdrop of a missing mother, a philatelist father worried about dwindling wealth, and two sisters proficient at hatching traps make for an appealing milieu.īradley creates bumps, and Flavia delights the reader by quelling them to the ground, time and again. Flavia waltzes around police, disclosing as little as possible, and loves a good murder. She hangs out with the staff rummaging for clues, filing information in her head for future use. In this book, Flavia investigates an almost death of a gypsy woman who is bludgeoned on her father’s estate. Flavia has a penchant for chemistry she is spunky, ingenious, a spur-of-the-moment liar-all the qualities she thinks one needs in a professional investigator. ![]() The protagonist, Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old English aristocrat, lives in this remote hamlet with her two sisters-Daphney and Ophelia and her father in their ancestral home-the Buckshaw estate. The book is set in the 1950s in the picturesque village of Bishop’s Lacey. A Red Herring without Mustard -A Flavia De Luce Novel ![]()
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