Or it might have something to do with the disappearance two years ago of a local child. Something about both these crimes stinks of rotting fish, which suggests to Flavia they may be connected – possibly by way of a nonconformist sect called the Hobblers that practiced a strange form of Baptism in the river near where the Gypsy’s caravan was parked. But later she discovers a local ne’er-do-well’s corpse dangling from the trident of Poseidon on a derelict fountain on her family’s estate, a piece of the De Luce family silver lodged in his brain. In this installment, Flavia finds an old Gypsy woman unconscious in her caravan and bleeding from a head wound. To paraphrase a quotation Flavia finds in an old book, a week in her life without murder would be like a red herring without mustard. The third Flavia de Luce mystery finds our heroine still 11 years old, still plagued by two older sisters, still fascinated with chemistry and especially poisons, still running a bit wild around the family estate of Buckshaw and the village of Bishop’s Lacey, and still discovering corpses and solving mysteries at a rate that leaves the local detectives scratching their heads.
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