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Flavia de Luce is unlike any other “detective” in literature; she’s a bit like a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew. In 1950 Britain, a precocious, 11-year-old girl, Flavia, lives with her sisters and her father on the family estate, Buckshaw. When she finds a body in the cucumber patch just outside her window, she feels she must get involved in solving the crime, and in saving her father from a murder charge!
What I like about her is her intelligence and her unstoppable curiosity. I’v ...more
What I like about her is her intelligence and her unstoppable curiosity. I’v ...more
I have fallen in love with the brilliant, funny, terrifyingly intellegent and precocious Flavia Sabina de Luce! I'm so happy to have met her and have so many adventures to read!
Flavia and her two sisters live with their widowed father and a couple loyal servants in a too large and to expensive to maintain manor house in the small English Village of Bishop's Lacey. Colonel de Luce, a philatelist and WWII veteran spends his days with his stamp collection, letter his daughters, especially the young ...more
Flavia and her two sisters live with their widowed father and a couple loyal servants in a too large and to expensive to maintain manor house in the small English Village of Bishop's Lacey. Colonel de Luce, a philatelist and WWII veteran spends his days with his stamp collection, letter his daughters, especially the young ...more
While I felt this fizzled a tiny bit toward the end I really liked it overall for the amazing "feel" of the period. It brought to mind the old British movies, especially the St Trinian's films with all those feisty, clever schoolgirls always getting into mischief and besting the adults. It also had the feel of the Unfortunate Events books with Flavia's experiments & precocious interests. Come to think of it, the missing mother also smacked of the Snickett books. Wonderful descriptions of the qui
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4 STARS
"For very nearly eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce country seat, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare stamp neatly impaled on its beak. Even more astonishing was the effect of the dead bird on her stamp-collector father, who appeared to be genuinely frightened.
Soon Flavia discovers something even more shocking in the cucumber patch, and it's clear that the snipe w ...more
"For very nearly eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce country seat, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare stamp neatly impaled on its beak. Even more astonishing was the effect of the dead bird on her stamp-collector father, who appeared to be genuinely frightened.
Soon Flavia discovers something even more shocking in the cucumber patch, and it's clear that the snipe w ...more
Dec 28, 2017
Kelly
marked it as to-read
Jun 02, 2018
Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Jenn Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Schu
rated it
really liked it
Shelves:
mysteries-of-all-kinds,
historical-fiction
Mar 18, 2018
Kristina
rated it
it was amazing
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mystery,
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