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Flavia de Luce, a dangerously wise eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a wizard for solving murders, believes that her times of crime-solving in the rustic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until precious puppeteer Rupert Porson has their own strings sizzled within an unlucky rendezvous with energy. But who’d do any such thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Timber learn more than she’s allowing on? Think about Porson’s enchanting but inconsistent helper?