What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
- Published
- 1 January 2024
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780593724514
- Type
- novel
About this book
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust follows The Golden Tresses of the Dead as the most recent entry in Flavia de Luce, published in 2024, keeping Bradley's precocious, poison-obsessed narrator on the case in Bishop's Lacey.
Key facts about What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Alan Bradley wrote What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2024. The book has 320 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593724514 to find the main one.
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust is book 11 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. It is also the latest published Alan Bradley book on file.
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
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust is book 11 in the Flavia de Luce series. It follows The Golden Tresses of the Dead. 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 9780593724514
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781398721371
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781420515541