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Flavia de Luce

Questa serie racconta le avventure di una giovane precoce con una passione per la chimica e un talento nello svelare misteri. Ambientata nella campagna inglese degli anni '50, utilizza il suo acuto intelletto e metodi non convenzionali per risolvere enigmi mortali. Pedalando attraverso la sua dimora ancestrale e il villaggio circostante, scopre segreti a lungo sepolti, dimostrando che l'età non è un ostacolo per un brillante lavoro investigativo.

Flavia de Luce - 6: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
A spasso tra le tombe
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows. Flavia de Luce - Vorhang auf für eine Leiche, englische Ausgabe .
A Red Herring Without Mustard
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
Flavia de Luce e il delitto nel campo dei cetrioli

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. Flavia de Luce fa un’orrida scoperta nell’orto dei cetrioli, dove trova un corpo semisepolto. L’uomo, esalando l’ultimo respiro, sussurra una parola misteriosa: «Vale!». Poco prima, aveva ascoltato una conversazione inquietante tra il padre e uno sconosciuto riguardo a un certo Twining, morto da trent’anni, e a un omicidio. Inoltre, il padre era quasi svenuto di fronte a un uccellino con un francobollo nel becco. Questi eventi stuzzicano la curiosità dell’undicenne Flavia, una temeraria detective con un talento per la chimica, che la guida in un’avventura tra le campagne di Bishop’s Lacey, dove la sua famiglia, i de Luce, è in declino. Flavia vive con le sorelle maggiori, Daffy e Feely, e una servitù che ricorda la loro madre avventurosa. Le domande si accumulano: chi era Twining? Chi è l’uomo con cui il padre ha discusso? Cosa significa il francobollo? E come si collega tutto ciò a una tragedia avvenuta trent’anni prima nel college? Questo primo romanzo della serie mescola ingegno da giallo classico, ironia scabrosa, realismo macabro e la maliziosa innocenza di una ragazzina, creando un sottogenere giallo originale e di grande successo, capace di suscitare sorrisi, risate e brividi.

    Flavia de Luce e il delitto nel campo dei cetrioli1
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  2. Flavia de Luce 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.

    The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag2
    4,1
  3. Krimi. Camped in her horse-drawn caravan at Buckshaw, a young Gypsy woman is charged with the abduction -and then the murder - of a local child, and Flavia must draw upon her encyclopaedic knowledge of poisons - and Gypsy lore - to prevent a grave miscarriage of justice.

    A Red Herring Without Mustard3
    4,2
  4. "Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects. But Flavia de Luce is more than ready to solve the wintry country-house murder. She'll have to be quick-witted, though, to negotiate the volatile chemicals of a cast and crew starting to crack--and locked in a house with a murderer!"--Provided by publisher

    I Am Half-Sick of Shadows. Flavia de Luce - Vorhang auf für eine Leiche, englische Ausgabe .4
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  5. A spasso tra le tombe

    • 416pagine
    • 15 ore di lettura

    Flavia de Luce, pur non essendo praticante, è affascinata dall'atmosfera della parrocchia in occasione del cinquecentesimo anniversario della morte di San Tancredi. Mentre il vicario dirige i lavori per aprire il sepolcro, l'undicenne detective abbandona il suo laboratorio di chimica e le liti con le sorelle Feely e Daffy per curiosare. È impegnata in un esperimento sul sangue e sta indagando su un pipistrello morto nell'organo, quando scopre un macabro segreto: dietro la pietra tombale, trova il cadavere dell'organista Collicut, mascherato con un aggeggio di gomma. Collicut, un personaggio strano che era scomparso l'estate precedente, solleva interrogativi sulla sua morte e sulla sorte delle ossa di San Tancredi. Flavia, con la sua astuzia investigativa, si concentra su come sia avvenuto il delitto. La sua avventura si intreccia con la competizione e collaborazione con il severo ispettore Hewitt. La serie mescola il mistero di una giovane detective alla Mrs Marple con l'ambientazione della campagna inglese degli anni '50, ormai al tramonto. Flavia affronta enigmi polizieschi in un'atmosfera tenera e spregiudicata, circondata da personaggi bizzarri, mentre la sua innocenza si mescola a provocazioni che sfidano il mondo che la circonda.

    A spasso tra le tombe5
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  6. The presumed death of Harriet de Luce in a mysterious mountaineering accident in Tibet while Flavia was only a baby cast a sombre shadow over the family, leaving Colonel de Luce a broken man and Flavia herself with no memories of her mother. But 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 deadly events, as a most curious group of individuals converge on Buckshaw to pay their respects.

    Flavia de Luce - 6: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches6
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  7. "Flavia rules! In this New York Times bestselling series of enchanting mysteries, youthful chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce once again brings her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve dastardly crimes -- but this time, she leaves behind her beloved English countryside, and takes her sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools!"-- Provided by publisher

    As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust. Flavia de Luce - Eine Leiche wirbelt Staub auf, englische Ausgabe7
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  8. Mystery fans seeking novels of wit, an immersive English countryside setting, and rich characterizations will be rewarded with this newest entry in the award-winning series. - Library Journal (starred review) There is such a thing as willing suspension of disbelief brought on by sheer outlandish charm, and that's what [Alan] Bradley and some delicious writing have tapped. - London Free Press Flavia's first-person narration reveals her precocious intellect as well as her youthful vulnerability. - Shelf Awareness Flavia is once again a fun, science-loving protagonist. . . . This series entry ends on a note that begs for the next story. - Library Reads An eleven-year-old prodigy with an astonishing mind for chemistry and a particular interest in poisons. - The Strand Magazine (Five of the Best Historical Heroines) Bradley's preteen heroine comes through in the end with a series of deductions so clever she wants to hug herself. So will you. - Kirkus Reviews From the Hardcover edition.

    Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd8
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  9. Flavia is irrepressible, precocious, and indefatigable as she approaches adolescence, opening a new chapter in her life. Will she become the Madame Curie of crime? As usual, Bradley makes the series' improbable conceit work, balancing the plot's darkness with clever humor. Series fans will eagerly anticipate the details of this investigation, alongside a glimpse into Flavia's unorthodox family life. Those who share her enthusiastic belief that "an unexamined corpse was a tale untold" will delight in her resolution, which promises a dazzling array of innocent-seeming questions, intriguing chemical tidbits, and her signature bratty behavior. Bradley's unquenchable heroine brings "the most complicated case I had ever come across" to a satisfying conclusion, hinting at brighter days ahead. Acclaimed for the Flavia de Luce novels, which have won multiple prestigious awards, Flavia stands out as a bold, brilliant, and adorable sleuth. The delightful combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes makes her as addictive as dark chocolate. This plucky adolescent is terrifically entertaining, reigning as the world's foremost braniac, chemist, sleuth, busybody, and smartypants—no one can touch her in that category.

    The Grave's a Fine and Private Place9
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  10. 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, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder--although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.

    The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce Mystery)9
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  11. Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. A church is a wonderful place for a wedding, muses Flavia, surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar. Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the chemical nature of poisons, she has solved many mysteries, which has sharpened her considerable detection skills to the point where she had little choice but to turn professional. So Flavia and dependable Dogger, estate gardener and sounding board extraordinaire, set up shop at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, eager to serve--not so simple an endeavor with her odious, little moon-faced cousin, Undine, constantly underfoot. But Flavia and Dogger persevere. Little does she know that their first case will be extremely close to home, beginning with an unwelcome discovery in Ophelia's wedding cake: a human finger.

    The Golden Tresses of the Dead10
    3,9