The dead in their vaulted arches : [electronic resource] : Flavia de Luce mystery series, book 6. Alan Bradley.
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who was this man, what did his words mean, and why were they intended for Flavia? Back home at Buckshaw, the de Luces' crumbling estate, Flavia puts her sleuthing skills to the test. Following a trail of clues sparked by the discovery of a reel of film stashed away in the attic, she unravels the deepest secrets of the de Luce clan, involving none other than Winston Churchill himself. Surrounded by family, friends, and a famous pathologist from the Home Office -- and making spectacular use of Harriet's beloved Gypsy Moth plane, Blithe Spirit -- Flavia will do anything, even take to the skies, to land a killer.
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- ISBN: 9780345539694 (electronic bk)
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Target Audience Note: | Grade 5 MG+/Upper middle grades (6th-12th) 6.5 ATOS Level |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Delacorte Press, 2014. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2156 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches : A Flavia de Luce Novel
Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He studied electronic engineering and worked at numerous radio and television stations in Ontario and at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in Toronto. Later, he became the Director of Television Engineering in the media centre at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK, where he remained for 25 years before taking early retirement to write in 1994. He is the author of the Flavia de Luce Mystery series, all 6 of which have been New York Times bestsellers. In 2009 he won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. He also writes non-fiction books including The Shoebox Bible and Ms. Holmes of Baker Street. (Bowker Author Biography)