
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
A Flavia de Luce Mystery
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Narrated by:
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Jayne Entwistle
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By:
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Alan Bradley
From Dagger Award-winning and internationally best-selling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery, starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant 11-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.
Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over—and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces’ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.
Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What of the vicar’s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then there’s a German pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porson’s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?
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Entertainingly clever
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If you could sum up The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag in three words, what would they be?
Flavia learns all!Who was your favorite character and why?
Flavia, of course. She of the indefatigable curiousity and spirit with a touch of pain supplied by her sisters.Which character – as performed by Jayne Entwistle – was your favorite?
Flavia (again). Her "voice" reflects her perfectly.If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Do you need help?Flavia Rules!
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Fantastic!
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
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not as good as the first book
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Outstanding!
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Her process of solving mysteries is always engaging. Listening to the book is really great because the accents and young voice of a 10-11 year old makes her come alive.
Love this series - Can't wait to read the next one
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I'm saving Book Three to enjoy another time. Something to look forward to.
Love Flavia - A Favorite Listen
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always a pleasure
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Fantastic heroine
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