A Red Herring Without Mustard

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Orion Books, 2011 - Fiction - 397 pages
For eleven year old Flavia de Luce, an audience with a gypsy fortune-teller at the Bishop Lacey village fete is just a bit of fun until the old woman claims to see a vision of Flavia's mother who died when Flavia was a baby. Flavia is determined to find out what lies behind the gypsy's vision, but when the old woman is brutally attacked in her caravan, she realises she has more to worry about than messages from the other side.Then a bizarrely arranged corpse is found in the grounds of the de Luce family seat and it seems that the heart of the mystery is close to home.

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About the author (2011)

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.

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