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As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust A Flavia de Luce Novel

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Flavia de Lucepart Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events (The New York Times Book Review)takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in this captivating mystery.

BONUS: This edition includes The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse: A Flavia de Luce Story.

Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycotes Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavias first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a bedroom chimney. Now, while attending classes, making friends (and enemies), and assessing the schools stern headmistress and faculty (one of whom is an acquitted murderess), Flavia is on the hunt for the victims identity and time of death, as well as suspects, motives, and means. Rumors swirl that Miss Bodycotes is haunted, and that several girls have disappeared without a trace. When it comes to solving multiple mysteries, Flavia is up to the taskbut her true destiny has yet to be revealed.

Praise for As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

Flavia de Luce [is] perhaps contemporary crime fictions most original characterto say she is Pippi Longstocking with a Ph.D. in chemistry (speciality: poisons) barely begins to describe her.Macleans

Another treat for readers of all ages . . . [As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust] maintains the high standards Bradley set from the start.Booklist

Exceptional . . . [The] intriguing setup only gets better, and Bradley makes Miss Bodycotes a suitably Gothic setting for Flavias sleuthing. Through it all, her morbid narrative voice continues to charm.Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Even after all these years, Flavia de Luce is still the worlds greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth.The Seattle Times

Plot twists come faster than Canadian snowfall. . . . Bradleys sense of observation is as keen as gung-ho scientist Flavias. . . . The results so far are seven sparkling Flavia de Luce mysteries.Library Journal