# The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery - Paperback

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by **Alan Bradley** (Author)

**WINNER OF THE AGATHA - ARTHUR ELLIS - DILYS - DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS**

"Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . \[Flavia is\] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine."_\--Chicago Sun-Times_  
  
It is the summer of 1950-and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.

For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."

BONUS: This edition contains a _The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie_ discussion guide and an excerpt from Alan Bradley's _The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag._

### 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:** 416

**Dimensions:** 0.88 x 7.71 x 5.37 IN

**Publication Date:** January 19, 2010

**Award:** Agatha Awards (2009)

**Award:** Dilys Award (2010)

**Award:** Anthony Awards (2010)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 6.6

**Point Value:** 16

## Details

- **Price:** 25.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Historical, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Thrillers

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