The Resource The golden tresses of the dead, Alan Bradley
The golden tresses of the dead, Alan Bradley
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Resource Information
The item The golden tresses of the dead, Alan Bradley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 327 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345540027
- Label
- The golden tresses of the dead
- Title
- The golden tresses of the dead
- Statement of responsibility
- Alan Bradley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1938-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bradley, C. Alan
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- A Flavia de Luce novel
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- De Luce, Flavia
- Child detectives
- Murder
- Label
- The golden tresses of the dead, Alan Bradley
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1081316335
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 327 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345540027
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2018039374
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The golden tresses of the dead, Alan Bradley
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1081316335
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 327 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345540027
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2018039374
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
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