# The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel - Paperback

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by **Alan Bradley** (Author)

**_NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER - A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, "the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (_The Seattle Times_).**

Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. "A church is a wonderful place for a wedding," muses Flavia, "surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar." Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the chemical nature of poisons, she has solved many mysteries, sharpening her considerable detection skills to the point where she had little choice but to turn professional. So Flavia and dependable Dogger, estate gardener and sounding board extraordinaire, set up shop at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, eager to serve--not so simple an endeavor with her odious little moon-faced cousin, Undine, constantly underfoot. But Flavia and Dogger persevere. Little does she know that their first case will be extremely close to home, beginning with an unwelcome discovery in Ophelia's wedding cake: a human finger.

**Praise for** _**The Golden Tresses of the Dead**_

"Delightful . . . The mysteries in Mr. Bradley's books are engaging, but the real lure is Ms. de Luce, the irreverent youngster."**\--_The Wall Street Journal_**

"A ghoulish question is at the heart of Bradley's excellent tenth Flavia de Luce novel. . . . Bradley, who has few peers at combining fair-play clueing with humor and has fun mocking genre conventions, shows no sign of running out of ideas."**\--_Publishers Weekly_ (starred review)**

### Author Biography

**Alan Bradley** is the _New York Times_ bestselling author of many short stories, children's stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir _The Shoebox Bible_. His first Flavia de Luce 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 novels are _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,_ and _The Grave's a Fine and Private Place,_ as well as the ebook short story "The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse."

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** August 27, 2019

## Details

- **Price:** 29.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Amateur Sleuth, Books, Fiction, Historical, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Thrillers

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