A Red Herring Without Mustard
A Flavia de Luce Novel
Flavia de Luce: Book #3
- By: Alan Bradley
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Description
Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey—mysteries involving a missing tot, a fortune-teller, and a corpse in Flavia’s own backyard.
Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had abducted a local child years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the bliss of settling scores; revenge is a delightful pastime when one has two odious older sisters. But how could this crime be connected to the missing baby? Had it something to do with the weird sect who met at the river to practice their secret rites? While still pondering the possibilities, Flavia stumbles upon another corpse—that of a notorious layabout who had been caught prowling about the de Luce’s drawing room.
Pedaling Gladys, her faithful bicycle, across the countryside in search of clues to both crimes, Flavia uncovers some odd new twists. Most intriguing is her introduction to an elegant artist with a very special object in her possession—a portrait that sheds light on the biggest mystery of all: Who is Flavia?
As the red herrings pile up, Flavia must sort through clues fishy and foul to untangle dark deeds and dangerous secrets.
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Flavia de Luce Series

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, 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... Read more »
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two... Read more »
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
When a mysterious puppet show arrives in Bishop's Lacey, death is not far behind... a grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall reaches back to an earlier crime that has cast a shadow over the village for years. Flavia's investigations test her powers of deduction to the limit - and provide a shocking... Read more »
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A Red Herring Without Mustard
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
'You frighten me,' the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' For Flavia de Luce, the old gypsy's words open up old wounds and new possibilities. Is she a faker, or is there some truth to her powers? And when the village is rocked by another ghastly murder, how will a growing fascination with gypsy lore help... Read more »
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A Red Herring Without Mustard
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey—mysteries involving a missing tot, a fortune-teller, and a corpse in... Read more »
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce—an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving—is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces’ decaying English estate, to shoot a movie... Read more »
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
All is not well at Buckshaw, home of Flavia de Luce... With the family finances in a parlous state, Flavia's father has rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. When a heavy snowfall cuts the village off, the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance in the parish hall. But old jealousies surface, and the leading... Read more »
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Speaking from Among the Bones
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de... Read more »

Speaking From Among the Bones
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The villagers of Bishop’s Lacey are holding their collective breath as St Tancred’s tomb in the local church is about to be opened after five hundred years. Inveterate eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce is first at the scene, but the body she finds lying there is not that of a desiccated saint; it is Mr Collicutt, St Tancred's celebrated... Read more »
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The Dead in their Vaulted Arches
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The absence of Flavia DeLuce’s mother, Harriet, has always cast a shadow, since her presumed death in a mountaineering accident in Tibet. Now, astonishingly, a specially commissioned train is bringing Harriet back to Buckshaw. But rather than putting the past finally to rest, Harriet's return is set to trigger a further series of bizarre and... Read more »
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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train’s arrival in the English village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a... Read more »

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Flavia de Luce—“part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” (The New York Times Book Review)—takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in this captivating mystery.
Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia... Read more »

As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust: Flavia de Luce, Book 7
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
When Flavia de Luce is banished to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada she’s soon on familiar ground, when, on her first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. Girls have been disappearing with alarming regularity, leading Flavia to wonder not only how and why, but what... Read more »
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Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd: Flavia de Luce, Book 8
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last, but her homecoming is overshadowed by news of her father's illness. Forbidden from visiting him in hospital, Flavia busies herself in the village, but she soon makes a macabre discovery: the corpse of a reclusive woodcarver, in an empty house, except for a curiously uncurious cat.... Read more »
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Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Hailed as “a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes” by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in a Christmas mystery from award-winning author Alan Bradley.
In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But... Read more »

The Grave's a Fine and Private Place: Flavia de Luce, Book 9
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Flavia is enjoying the summer, spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family. Languishing in boredom, she drags a slack hand in the water, and catches her fingers in the open mouth of a drowned corpse. Flavia needs to put her super-sleuthing skills to the test to investigate the murder of three gossips in the local church,... Read more »
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The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
By: Alan Bradley
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth” (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley.
In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger,... Read more »

The Golden Tresses of the Dead
By: Alan Bradley
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, “the world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth” (The Seattle Times).
Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop’s Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia... Read more »

The Golden Tresses of the Dead
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Flavia de Luce, the twelve-year-old chemist and amateur detective is eager to turn professional. She and her father's valet, Dogger, have founded a detective agency, Arthur Dogger & Associates, and unexpectedly cut into their first case during the revelry at her sister Ophelia's wedding reception. After an eventful ceremony with a missing... Read more »
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