As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN-13
- 9781409149439
- Type
- novel
About this book
As the seventh installment of Flavia de Luce, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust appeared in 2015, sending Flavia's chemistry-and-nerve brand of amateur detection beyond the familiar confines of Buckshaw and Bishop's Lacey.
Key facts about As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Alan Bradley wrote As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2015. The book has 392 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781409149439 to find the main one.
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust is book 7 of 11 in the Flavia de Luce series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (2009).
That series sits on our cozy mystery shelf. Meanwhile, What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust is the latest published Alan Bradley book on file, from 2024.
About Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley is a Canadian author best known for the Flavia de Luce series, a run of cozy mysteries set in 1950s England and narrated by an eleven-year-old chemistry prodigy with a taste for poisons and a habit of solving murders faster than the local police. See every Alan Bradley book in order.
Its place in Flavia de Luce
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust is book 7 in the Flavia de Luce series. It follows The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches. It is followed by Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd. 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 9780345539946
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781410476173
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409149446