As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust - A Flavia de Luce Novel

London: Orion, 2015. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 392 pages. It all began with that awful business about my mother, Harriet.... Following Harriet's dramatic return home, Flavia de Luce finds herself expelled from the familiar confines of Bishop's Lacey and her beloved family home, Buckshaw, and 'packed off', as she puts it. to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada - her mother's old boarding school. With its forbidding headmistress, intimidating teachers (one of whom is a convicted murderess) and bizarre rules, adapting to Miss Bodycote's is quite a challenge. But Flavia is soon on familiar ground, when, onher first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. And the mystery of the withered corpse is only the beginning. Girlshave been disappearing from Miss Bodycote's with alarming regularity, leading Flavia to wonder not only how and why , but what exactly is the academy's true purpose, and why were her father and Aunt Felicity so keen for her to enrol? If Flavia is to avoid the same fate as the missing girls, she must enter a shadowy world where truth and lies seem interchangeable and no one can be trusted. And ultimately she must discover what exactly it means to be her mother's daughter. L. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.