The two must be connected, but how? And why is there always a smell of fish at the scene of the crime? As Flavia begins to investigate the assault, a bizarre murder takes place in the grounds of Buckshaw. In this book a gypsy woman, Fenella Faa, is brutally attacked while camping in The Palings, part of the de Luce estate. Away from her detective work, Flavia enjoys riding her trusty bicycle, Gladys, spending time in her chemical laboratory and thinking up ways to get revenge on her two sisters, Ophelia and Daphne, who are forever torturing her. Flavia has a passion for chemistry and a talent for solving murder mysteries, despite the attempts of Inspector Hewitt to stop her becoming involved. Flavia de Luce is an eleven-year-old girl who lives with her father and sisters on their family estate, Buckshaw. I loved the first two books in the series ( The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag) and I was pleased to find that this one is as good as the others.Ī Red Herring without Mustard, like the previous books in the series, is set in 1950s England, in the village of Bishop’s Lacey. A Red Herring without Mustard is the third book in Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series.
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