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年份：2010
ISBN：9780385343497
書號：20115920
裝訂：平裝
定價：$525
優惠價：$446元
【化學天才少女破解郵票謀殺疑雲】
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie《餡餅的秘密》｜第一部
1950年的倫敦夏日，一具橫躺在巴克肖莊園的屍體打破這棟大宅昔日寧靜。
十一歲的芙拉維亞熱愛化學，鍾情於研究毒藥。某天大門不尋常地出現一隻鳥喙上插著郵票的死鳥，隨後芙拉維亞便在黃瓜圃中發現一個陌生人奄奄一息地橫躺在地。芙拉維亞湊近一看，發現此人尚存最後一口氣，吐出最後鼻息，輕嘆 "Vale..."便斷氣。報警後，警方很快前來現場調查，然而沒有血跡，沒有指紋，也毫無中毒跡象的可疑屍體，讓警方束手無策，而僅有的線索似乎都指向大宅主人，也就是芙拉維亞父親，警方便逕直將其帶回警局偵訊。
芙拉維亞無法相信平日寡言、沉浸於集郵的父親會是殺人兇手，下定決心要解開這起大宅兇殺疑雲。年僅11歲的她憑藉豐富化學知識、細膩觀察力及過人膽識，抽絲剝繭找尋真正的兇手。然而，在破案過程中，芙拉維亞並沒有意識到危險已悄然而至…
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.
For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”
