For those, like me, who enjoy and old fashioned English whodunit, this book is perfect. Young Flavia de Luce lives in a manor house with her family of eccentrics, a reclusive father and two older sisters. Her adventurer mother died years earlier during a mountain climbing expedition. Flavia is a budding young chemist with a predilection for poisons who inserts herself into the mystery with tenacity. The rest of the household includes a cook/housekeeper and the gardner.
When a dead bird with a postage stamp stuck on its beak is left on the doorstep, Flavia is intrigued and must investigate. Things take a serious turn when she later finds a man dying in their cucumber patch. In true British style the mystery has many facets inclucing a decades old death at a boys' school, the theft of valuable stamps, an amateur magician, and blackmail. When her father is arrested for murdering the stranger in the garden Flavia goes into high gear to find out the truth behind it all. This book is great fun and I'm happy to have found a new mystery series.
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