NATIONAL BESTSELLER Flavia is incisive, cutting and hilarious . . . one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature. USA Today

Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishops Lacey are overuntil beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But whod do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than shes letting on? What about Porsons charming but erratic assistant? All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables cant solvewithout Flavias help. But in getting so close to whos secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley’s A Red Herring Without Mustard, discussion questions, and an essay by the author.