The Sweetness at the Bottom of the PieThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak.