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Flavia de Luce - 11-year-old Detective or Know-it-All?
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last updated Nov 12, 2010 01:17PM
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This is a nice, light-hearted mystery. The protagonist is the incorrigible 11-year-old Flavia de Luce. She is a 51-year-old stuck in an 11-year-old's body. Flavia studies chemistry for fun and applies her skills to torture her two older sisters. The oldest, Ophelia, is infatuated by her own beauty, and the middle, Daphne, always has her nose in a book. The Father is largely absent from their upbringing, as his wife died when Flavia was still a toddler, and he is not the type to take to parenting
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This was a delightful mystery. Main character is a precocious, funny, intelligent 11 year old named Flavia who solves the mystery of who murdered a man found in her family's cucumber patch. Flavia's father gets accused, but she figures out the real killer. Flavia is a stitch.
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This was a delightful mystery. Main character is a precocious, funny, intelligent 11 year old named Flavia who solves the mystery of who murdered a man found in her family's cucumber patch. Flavia's father gets accused, but she figures out the real killer. Flavia is a stitch.
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