Flavia de Luce · Book 3
A Red Herring Without Mustard
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780385665865
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Red Herring Without Mustard is the third book in Flavia de Luce, published in 2011 and running 400 pages. At 400 pages, it is the longest book in the collection covered here.
Its place in Flavia de Luce
A Red Herring Without Mustard is book 3 in the Flavia de Luce series. It follows The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag. It is followed by I Am Half-Sick of Shadows. See the full Flavia de Luce reading order.
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce lives in a crumbling English country pile called Buckshaw with her distant father, two spiteful older sisters, and a Victorian chemistry laboratory she has claimed as her own private kingdom. She is obsessed with poisons — their properties, their history, their delivery — and it is only a matter of time before a body turns up on the cucumber patch for her to apply that knowledge to. Set in the placid English village of Bishop's Lacey in the early 1950s, each novel drops a corpse…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385342322
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752897165
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780440422914