Sweetness on the crust of the pie. Bradley A.

In the old English estate, the last representatives of the aristocratic family live - the eccentric colonel de Lus and his three daughters. In the summer of 1950, the viscous swamp of rural life is violated by incredible events: the murder of a stranger and the arrest of a colonel. While the older daughters, as it should be well-well-mannered English ladies, sob in handkerchiefs, the younger, eleven-year-old Flavia, is delighted: finally something happened in her life!

Analytical mindset, a passion for chemistry, and especially poisons will help her understand this puzzling business on which local policemen broke her teeth. Flavia begins to search, which will lead her no more than to the king of England with his own person. In one she is sure: the father is innocent-on the contrary, he protects his daughters from something terrible...

“The sweetness of the cake of the pie” is an expertly told story of deception and piercing in its reliability immersion in the English life of the middle of the XX centuries.