Flavia de Luce · Book 1
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 373
- ISBN-13
- 9781846527463
- Type
- novel
About this book
As the first installment of Flavia de Luce, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie appeared in 2009, introducing eleven-year-old poison-obsessed narrator Flavia and her Victorian chemistry laboratory in the crumbling country house of Buckshaw.
Its place in Flavia de Luce
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is book 1 in the Flavia de Luce series. It is followed by The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag. 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 9780752891941
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780606238304
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9785170873197