Flavia de Luce · Book 11
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.
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