The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel

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 Bishop s Lacey are over until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she s letting on? What about Porson s charming but erratic assistant? 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?