
Spunk doesn’t begin to describe the indomitable Flavia de Luce. The 11-year-old girl with a passion for poisons spends her free time in a chemistry laboratory left by her grandfather in the attic of the crumbling mansion that houses her eccentric family. Flavia worries her widowed and reclusive father, bedevils her wicked sisters, and relies on the two faithful family retainers --- the cook and the butler --- for support. She blithely peddles about the 1950s English countryside on her fait