The Golden Tresses of the Dead

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Flavia de Luce has joined forces with her late father's valet Dogger to form Arthur W. Dogger & Associates and that can only lead to trouble. In The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley. Flavia's sister Ophelia is finally getting married.(The Golden Tresses of the Dead will be released on January 22 by Delacorte.)

Thrilled to finally be rid of her annoying older sister and her fiance Dieter, a former German prisoner of war, now turned British resident. Flavia is not your average 12-year-old. Since she was ten she has been solving crimes and now she's decided to turn pro.

As her sister is cutting her wedding cake, she shrieks and claims she has discovered a finger in the cake slice. Flavia quickly makes the finger vanish and convinces her sister there was nothing to see. Of course Flavia has other ideas on how to handle the finger and races to study it in her laboratory.


When she cannot seem to get the attention of her hero Inspector Hewitt (husband of the lovely Antigone) about the finger, she and Dogger, along with new sidekick Undine, try to discover who the finger belonged to and why it was included in the cake.

After thorough study, Flavia finds herself enmeshed in a dark secret and some nasty dealings with other body parts and miracle cures.

Hijinks and adventure for the clever Flavia and her new sidekick, Undine, her younger cousin.