Orion Books, London, 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Condition. Second impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 372 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia -when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is -- has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity, and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family's murky past Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780752883212. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8453. . 9780752883212

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Alan Bradley has published many children’s stories as well as lifestyle and arts columns in Canadian newspapers. His adult stories have been broadcast on CBC Radio and published in various literary journals. He won the first Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award for Children’s Literature. He lives in British Columbia. Delacorte Press will publish the next in Bradley’s delirious new series, The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, in 2010.

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Bookseller: Great Southern Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8453
Title: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Author: Bradley, Alan
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine Condition
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0752883216
ISBN 13: 9780752883212
Publisher: Orion Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: BZDB137 Fathers -- Death -- Fiction, Sisters -- Fiction, Murder -- Investigation -- England -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction, Fathers -- Death, Murder -- Investigation, Sisters, Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952- -- Fiction, England, fl

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