Alan Bradley

Se acercan las Navidades y Flavia de Luce quiere atrapar a Papá Noel con una sustancia pegajosa de su invención. Pero las tardes solitarias en el laboratorio llegan a su fin: para solucionar sus problemas economicos, el coronel De Luce le ha alquilado la mansion a un estudio cinematografico. Alli se rodara una pelicula de epoca protagonizada nada menos que por Phyllis Wyvern, la actriz de moda. Tras una representacion benefica de Romeo y Julieta, Phyllis aparece muerta en su habitacion, estrangulada con un rollo de pelicula. Flavia investiga, sin ser consciente de que hay muchos sospechosos. Phyllis no era lo que parecia y estas pueden ser las Navidades mas tragicas de su vida.

Flavia de Luce vive en una oscura mansión y tiene una familia poco común: dos hermanas que la odian y un padre a quien le interesa más la filatelia que lo que ocurra en su casa. Afortunadamente tiene dos aliados: su bicicleta Gladys y el laboratorio de quimica en el que disfruta de su curiosa aficion por los venenos mientras planea la venganza contra sus hermanas. Cuando Flavia se encuentra un pajaro muerto en la puerta de su casa y a un hombre a punto de morir, no dudara en meterse de lleno en la investigacion, demostrando que una niña de once años tambien puede resolver misterios que otros desearian enterrar.

Cuando alguien ataca a la anciana adivina que ha acampado en los terrenos de Buckshaw, Flavia recurrirá a sus dotes de investigación para descubrir al asaltante. Pero todo se complica cuando otra muerte sacude la tranquilidad del pequeño pueblo de Flavia, en el que, a pesar de la insoportable convivencia con sus dos extremadamente molestas hermanas mayores, ella sigue demostrando que no necesita una bola de cristal para descubrir al asesino.

The seventh novel in Alan Bradley''s addictive Flavia de Luce mystery series. It all began with that awful business about my mother, Harriet...Following the dramatic events at the conclusion of THE DEAD IN THEIR VAULTED ARCHES and the shocking revelations about her mother, Flavia de Luce finds herself expelled from the familiar confines of Bishop''s Lacey and her beloved family home, Buckshaw, and ''packed off'', as she puts it, to Miss Bodycote''s Female Academy in Canada. With its forbidding headmistress and bizarre rules, adapting to Miss Bodycote''s is quite a challenge. But Flavia is soon on familiar ground, when, on her first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. And the mystery of the withered corpse is only the beginning. Girls have been disappearing from Miss Bodycote''s with alarming regularity, leading Flavia to wonder not only how and why, but what exactly is the academy''s true purpose, and why were they so keen that she enrol? If Flavia is to avoid the same fate as the missing girls, she must enter a shadowy world where truth and lies seem interchangeable and no one can be trusted. And ultimately she must discover what it means to be her mother''s daughter.

Alan Bradley For very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce country seat, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare stamp neatly impaled on its beak. Even more astonishing was the effect of the dead bird on her stamp-collector father, who appeared to be genuinely frightened. Soon Flavia discovers something even more shocking in the cucumber patch and it''s clear that the snipe was a bird of very ill omen indeed. As the police descend on Buckshaw, Flavia decides it is up to her to piece together the clues and solve the puzzle. Who was the man she heard her father arguing with? What was the snipe doing in England at all? Who or what is the Ulster Avenger? And, most peculiar of all, who took a slice of Mrs Mullet''s unspeakable custard pie that had been cooling by the window...?

Alan BradleyIt is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia -when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is - has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity, and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family's murky past. Flavia and her family are brilliant creations, a darkly playful and wonderfully atmospheric flavour to a plot of delightful ingenuity.

«Brillante, irresistible e incorregible, Flavia tiene un gran futuro.» Kirkus Imagínese una vieja casa de campo en algún lugar de Inglaterra. El año es 1950. Imagínese una niña que vive allí con una

Inglaterra, 1950. Flavia de Luce tiene once años y tres pasiones: los venenos, molestar a sus hermanas mayores y resolver misterios. Hace un tiempo ayudó a la policía con un asesinato, pero desde entonces su unico consuelo son los experimentos que realiza en su laboratorio, ubicado en un ala deshabitada de la mansion en la que vive con su excentrica familia. Asi pues, cuando aparece una furgoneta anunciando un espectaculo de titeres, Flavia es la primera en meter la nariz en el asunto. El dia de la funcion, aunque el lleno total hace prever un gran exito, un tragico accidente lo enturbia todo. Aunque¿Seguro que se trata de un accidente? Sin perder un segundo, Flavia se monta en Gladys, su fiel bicicleta, y pedalea a la caza de las pistas que le permitan resolver este nuevo enigma. ¿Podra una niña enfrentarse sola a los peligros que le acechan en el camino hacia la verdad? En La muerte no es un juego de niños, Alan Bradley, uno de los genios de la narrativa detectivesca, vuelve a sumergirnos en una ingeniosa y apasionante historia de misterio de la mano de la investigadora mas singular, sarcastica e inolvidable del panorama narrativo actual. Los comentarios frivolos nunca me han gustado demasiado, sobre todo cuando los hacen otros y, mas concretamente, me importan un pimiento cuando proceden de un adulto. La experiencia me dice que los chistes en boca de alguien lo suficientemente mayor como para actuar con madurez, a menudo no son mas que un disfraz para algo bastante peor.

Was their killer still at large? Could their killer be here at Buckshaw...?Two deaths, ten years apart, give Flavia de Luce the distraction she needs at a time when her family are more remote and dysfunctional than usual. Especially when a bizarre series of deadly events is casting a long shadow over everyone at Buckshaw.For Flavia, a gruesome crime to solve is only one of the mysteries confronting her, as she begins to unravel the shocking revelations surrounding the mysterious disappearance of her mother. And as she starts putting the clues together, she discovers an extraordinary tale of espionage and betrayal that may also be the key to her own destiny.

Was their killer still at large? Could their killer be here at Buckshaw...? Two deaths, ten years apart, give Flavia de Luce the distraction she needs at a time when her family are more remote and dysfunctional than usual. Especially when a bizarre series of deadly events is casting a long shadow over everyone at Buckshaw. For Flavia, a gruesome crime to solve is only one of the mysteries confronting her, as she begins to unravel the shocking revelations surrounding the mysterious disappearance of her mother. And as she starts putting the clues together, she discovers an extraordinary tale of espionage and betrayal that may also be the key to her own destiny.

The story opens with the immortal words 'I was lying dead in the churchyard' (spoken, astonishingly, by Flavia herself) and ends with a funeral watched by the De Luce family on a newly-installed television set. Inbetween, Alan Bradley weaves a hauntingly nightmarish tale that involves Punch & Judy - and in particular Mr Punch's nemesis, the hangman, Jack Ketch - a frighteningly realistic puppet show, and a hitherto unexplored corner of Bishop's Lacey known as Gibbet's Wood.

Hailed as a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in a new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley.Its Christmastime, and in spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycotes Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her father has fallen ill, and a hospital visit will have to wait while he rests. But with Flavias blasted sisters and insufferable cousin underfoot, Buckshaw now seems both too emptyand not empty enough. Only too eager to run an errand for the vicars wife, Flavia hops on her trusty bicycle, Gladys, to deliver a message to a reclusive wood-carver. Finding the front door ajar, Flavia enters and stumbles upon the poor mans body hanging upside down on the back of his bedroom door. The only living creature in the house is a feline that shows little interest in the disturbing scene. Curiosity may not kill this cat, but Flavia is energized at the prospect of a new investigation.

The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favourite.' Mail on SundayCURIOUSITY WON'T KILL THIS CAT...Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last, but her homecoming is overshadowed by news of her father's illness.Forbidden from visiting Colonel de Luce in hospital, Flavia busies herself in the village, but she soon makes a macabre discover: the corpse of a reclusive woodcarver hanging upside down on the back of a door, in a house empty but for a curiously uncurious cat.

Guanyadora del premi Debut Dagger Award de novel·la policíaca.La jove Flavia de Luce queda corglaçada quan a primera hora del matí, entre els cogombres, descobreix un cadàver al seu jardí! Tothom sos

Flavia sigue disfrutando de sus extrañas aficiones y se pasa horas encerrada en su laboratorio haciendo experimentos con el fin de fastidiar a sus hermanas, hasta que un buen día, la muerte de un titiritero ambulante que llega con su espectaculo a Bishop?s Lacey, despierta de nuevo su pasion por resolver crimenes. ¿Quien puede estar detras de esa muerte? Flavia escarbara en los secretos mas oscuros e investigara sin tregua hasta desentrañar el misterio que rodea a dos muertes, separadas por el tiempo, pero unidas por los hilos mas perversos.