Flavia de Luce · Book 2
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780307704771
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 2010, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag is part of Flavia de Luce, credited to Alan Bradley. It continues the cozy-mystery series' dry, affectionate take on the placid English village of Bishop's Lacey in the early 1950s, with Flavia out-deducing the local police once again.
Its place in Flavia de Luce
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag is book 2 in the Flavia de Luce series. It follows The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. It is followed by A Red Herring Without Mustard. 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 9780385343459
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780307704771
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780440339175