The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

About “The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag”

Eleven-year-old chemist-sleuth Flavia de Luce investigates the electrocution death of puppeteer Rupert Porson in the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey. The case leads her to a madwoman in Gibbet Wood, a German pilot obsessed with the Brontes, a box of poisoned chocolates, and a suspicious death from years earlier.