Resumen
The seventh novel in Alan Bradleys addictive Flavia de Luce mystery series. It all began with that awful business about my mother, Harriet...Following the dramatic events at the conclusion of THE DEAD IN THEIR VAULTED ARCHES and the shocking revelations about her mother, Flavia de Luce finds herself expelled from the familiar confines of Bishops Lacey and her beloved family home, Buckshaw, and packed off, as she puts it, to Miss Bodycotes Female Academy in Canada. With its forbidding headmistress and bizarre rules, adapting to Miss Bodycotes is quite a challenge. But Flavia is soon on familiar ground, when, on her first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. And the mystery of the withered corpse is only the beginning. Girls have been disappearing from Miss Bodycotes with alarming regularity, leading Flavia to wonder not only how and why, but what exactly is the academys true purpose, and why were they so keen that she enrol? If Flavia is to avoid the same fate as the missing girls, she must enter a shadowy world where truth and lies seem interchangeable and no one can be trusted. And ultimately she must discover what it means to be her mothers daughter.
