What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust: A Flavia de Luce Mystery - Softcover

Alan Bradley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385698224 ISBN 13: 9780385698221

Publisher: Anchor Canada, 2025

Synopsis

Listening Length 8 hours and 34 minutes

Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers secrets that bring the greatest shock of her life.



Poisonous mushrooms, pestilent cousins—and a most perplexing murder...

There's a new arrival at Buckshaw—Flavia de Luce's obnoxious cousin Undine. Flavia reluctantly takes on the mentorship of her fellow orphan, who in her best moments shows some potential for trespassing and trickery.

When Major Greyleigh, a former hangman, is found dead from a breakfast of poisonous mushrooms, suspicion falls on the de Luce family's longtime cook, Mrs. Mullet. After all, didn't she pick the mushrooms and serve them to Greyleigh moments before his death?

Flavia knows her beloved Mrs. Mullet is innocent. Together with Dogger, estate gardener and partner-in-crime, and the odious Undine, she sets out to find the real killer and clear Mrs. Mullet's good name.

But following the case's twists and turns will lead her to a most surprising discovery—one with the power to upend her entire life...

Edition details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385698224
• ISBN 13: 9780385698221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320