The Weed That Strings the Hangmans Bag

Flavia de Luce,a dangerously smart eleven-year-old Wlth a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders，thi nks that her davs of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop'S Lacey are over－and then beloved puppeteer RuDert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvzus With electricity．But who'd do such a thing，and who?DOes the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she，s letting on?What about Porson's charming bu t crratie assistant?A11 clues point toward a suspicious death vears earlier and a case the local constables can't solve without Flavia'S help．But in getting SO close to who'S secretly Dulling the strings of this dance of death，has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?