![]() For Flavia, undoing the complex knot that ties these strands together will test her precocious powers of deduction to the limit - and provide a shocking insight into some of the darker corners of the adult world. The plot, beginning with the arrival in Bishop's Lacey of a travelling puppet show, features a grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall and reaches back to an earlier, even nastier crime centring on an ancient, rotting gibbet that has lain like a shadow over the village for years. Alan Bradley - The Weed That Strings the Hangmans Bag (Flavia de Luce 2) setting village of Bishops Lacey, Flavia de Luce braces and pigtails like a typical 11-year-old girl, chemist Gladys - her bicycle, Ophelia de Luce (17) Daphne de Luce (13) Dogger, Arthur Wellesley loyal retainer Mrs. How does Bradley balance the novel’s style with the subject matter 5. Inbetween, Alan Bradley weaves a hauntingly nightmarish tale that involves Punch & Judy - and in particular Mr Punch's nemesis, the hangman, Jack Ketch - a frighteningly realistic puppet show, and a hitherto unexplored corner of Bishop's Lacey known as Gibbet's Wood. Despite its lightness, The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bagis a dark novel, dealing with the death of a child and the deceptions that both preceded and followed that tragic event. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story opens with the immortal words 'I was lying dead in the churchyard' (spoken, astonishingly, by Flavia herself) and ends with a funeral watched by the De Luce family on a newly-installed television set. ![]()
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