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As chimney sweepers come to dust : a Flavia de Luce novel / Alan Bradley.

Title
As chimney sweepers come to dust : a Flavia de Luce novel / Alan Bradley.
Author
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Publication
  • New York : Delacorte Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
392 pages; 20 cm.
Summary
Banished from her home at Buckshaw for her recent indiscretions, Flavia is shipped across the ocean to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Toronto, her mother's alma mater, there to be inducted into a mysterious organization known as the Nide. No sooner does she arrive, however, than a body comes crashing down out of the chimney and into her room, setting off a series of investigations into mysterious disappearances of girls from the school.
Series Statement
  • A Flavia de Luce novel ; bk. 7
  • Bradley, Alan, 1938- Flavia de Luce mystery 7.
Subject
  • De Luce, Flavia (Fictitious character) > Fiction
  • Missing children > Fiction
  • Missing persons > Investigation > Fiction
  • Child detectives > Fiction
  • Gifted girls > Fiction
  • British > Canada > Fiction
  • Boarding schools > Fiction
  • FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
  • FICTION / Thrillers
  • FICTION / Historical
  • Boarding schools
  • De Luce, Flavia (Fictitious character)
  • Boarding schools > Canada > Fiction
  • Toronto (Ont.) > Fiction
  • Canada
Genre/Form
  • Mystery fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Detective and mystery stories.
  • Detective and mystery fiction
  • Detective and mystery fiction.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Twelve-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce has been banished to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy, a boarding school in Canada that her mother attended. On her first day, a mummified body tumbles out of a bedroom chimney. Rumours swirl that several girls have gone missing also. When it comes to solving multiple mysteries, Flavia is up to the task -- but her true destiny has yet to be revealed.
ISBN
  • 9780345539939 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 0345539931 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 9780345539953 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2014029962
OCLC
  • 889324016
  • SCSB-12911790
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library