Flavia de Luce · Book 6
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780385668156
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches is the sixth book in Flavia de Luce, published in 2014 and running 336 pages. It advances the series' underlying mystery of Harriet's wartime disappearance alongside Flavia's usual forensic-chemistry sleuthing.
Its place in Flavia de Luce
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches is book 6 in the Flavia de Luce series. It follows Speaking from Among the Bones. It is followed by As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust. 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 9780385668156
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345539694
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781410464781