CD audiobook
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie [sound recording (CD)] / written by Alan Bradley ; read by Jayne Entwistle.
"Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist. When her father is arrested for murder, she begins a search for the truth that will lead her all the way to the King of England." -- Provided by the Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739384305
- ISBN: 0739384309
- ISBN: 9780307914200
- ISBN: 0307914208
- Physical Description: 8 sound discs (600 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 inch disc.
- Edition: Unabridged edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, p2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | 8 audio compact discs in 2 containers. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | FOR USE WITH A CD-AUDIO PLAYER |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Jayne Entwistle. |
| System Details Note: | Compact discs. |
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| Genre: | Mystery fiction, Canadian. Mystery fiction. Audiobooks. Canadian fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Portage la Prairie Regional Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portage la Prairie Regional Library | CDA AF BRA 1443 A&B (Text) | 3675000212367 | Audio Book Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, begins her adventure when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's mansion in the summer of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that involves an investigation into a man's murder where her father is the main suspect. Simultaneous. - Baker & Taylor
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into a mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of her family's decaying English mansion and Flavia's father becomes the main suspect. - Random House, Inc.
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950âand a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flaviaâs family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. âI wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasnât. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.â
To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding storyâof a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the schoolâs tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murderâbut protecting her and her sisters from something even worseâ¦.
An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptionsâand a rich literary delight.
From the Hardcover edition.
