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The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag

by Alan Bradley

When a travelling puppet show arrives in Bishop's Lacey, a sinister shadow is cast over the town when a grisly murder takes place during a performance and an earlier, even nastier crime is revealed. For 11 year old Flavia, undoing the complex knot that ties these strands together will test her precocious powers of deduction.

FictionMystery & DetectiveTraditionalWomen SleuthsHistoricalCozy

RELEASED2010

PUBLISHEROrion

LENGTH342

LANGUAGEEN

Alan BradleyMystery writer

Mystery writer

The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag cover

The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag

by Alan Bradley

When a travelling puppet show arrives in Bishop's Lacey, a sinister shadow is cast over the town when a grisly murder takes place during a performance and an earlier, even nastier crime is revealed. For 11 year old Flavia, undoing the complex knot that ties these strands together will test her precocious powers of deduction.

FictionMystery & DetectiveTraditionalWomen SleuthsHistoricalCozyAmateur SleuthThrillers

RELEASED2010

PUBLISHEROrion

LENGTH342

LANGUAGEEN

Alan BradleyMystery writer

Mystery writer

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