As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
A Flavia de Luce Mystery
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Erschienen am 6. Januar 2015
360 Seiten
978-0-385-67839-1 (ISBN)
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***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MOLLY BELLE WRIGHT, MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES***
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Banished! is how eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when she discovers that her father and Aunt Felicity have had her shipped off to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia's first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a brick chimney. Now while attending classes, making friends (and enemies), and assessing the school's stern head mistress and faculty (one of whom is an acquitted murderess), Flavia is on the hunt for the victim's identity, time of death, suspects, motives, and means. Rumors swirl that Miss Bodycote's is haunted, and that several girls have disappeared without a trace. When it comes to solving multiple mysteries, Flavia is up to the task-but her true destiny has yet to be revealed.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Banished! is how eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when she discovers that her father and Aunt Felicity have had her shipped off to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia's first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a brick chimney. Now while attending classes, making friends (and enemies), and assessing the school's stern head mistress and faculty (one of whom is an acquitted murderess), Flavia is on the hunt for the victim's identity, time of death, suspects, motives, and means. Rumors swirl that Miss Bodycote's is haunted, and that several girls have disappeared without a trace. When it comes to solving multiple mysteries, Flavia is up to the task-but her true destiny has yet to be revealed.
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ALAN BRADLEY is the internationally bestselling author of eleven Flavia de Luce mystery novels and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. His other Flavia de Luce works include The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Speaking from Among the Bones, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place, The Golden Tresses of the Dead, and What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust, as well as the ebook short story "The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse." Numb Were the Beadsman's Fingers, the twelfth novel in the Flavia de Luce series, will be published in Fall 2026. Originally from Toronto, Bradley lives and writes on an island in the middle of the Irish Sea.
