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Winner of the crime writers association debut dagger award and the agatha and dilys award a wickedly clever story, a deadtrue and original voice laurie r. Apr 28, 2009 listen to sweetness at the bottom of the pie. The sweetness at the bottom of the pie is a mystery by alan bradley published in 2009. Reading guide for the sweetness at the bottom of the pie by. Entwistle depicts flavias willingness to plunge into the mystery that develops when a curious dead bird, a threatening stranger, and a dead body lead to her fathers arrest for murder.
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Alan bradley walked away from a career in broadcast engineering to become a writer but didnt produce his first novel, the sweetness at the bottom of the pie, until he turned 70, likely unaware at the time that he was about to embark on a new career at a point when most people are satisfied with retirement. I had seen alan bradleys the sweetness at the bottom of the pie highly recommended by several bloggers a few years ago, so when it came up on sale at audible, i snapped it up. As most of you know, alan bradleys novel is a mystery set in the 1950s, and his sleuth is a precocious, delightful and chemistry. Why is my audiobook not showing up on my iphone, ipad, or ipod.
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