Description

It's summer time of 1950–and in the once-great estate of Buckshaw, youthful Flavia de Luce, an ambitious chemist with a love for toxin, is fascinated by way of a number of mysterious events: A dead bird is located on the doorstep, a postage-stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia discovers a guy lying-in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his desperate breath.For Flavia, who's equally happy and shocked, lifestyle starts in earnest when homicide involves Buckshaw. “I wish I can claim I was scared, but I wasn’t. Rather the opposite.