![]() ![]() The performance has just finished when a snowstorm strands the villagers at the estate, with no heat, no electricity and no immediate possibility of police intervention. She coaxes her co-star to join her in a scene from Romeo and Juliet to be staged in Buckshaw’s foyer. Learning that the fabulous actress Phyllis Wyvern will be in residence, the vicar of Bishop’s Lacey pops around to ask if she’ll star in a fundraiser for the church. The company will have free run of the place except for the Colonel’s study and his deceased wife Harriet’s boudoir. While it’s steeping, she and her tormentors, her older sisters Feely and Daffy, hear from their father, the Colonel, that financial distress has caused him to rent out Buckshaw to Ilium Films. ![]() ![]() Flavia, the cheeky 11-year-old who knows her way around a sulfurous beaker, is at it again.ĭetermined to prove that there is a Santa Claus, Flavia de Luce retreats to her laboratory in the upper reaches of Buckshaw, the family estate, to concoct a glue that will cement him to the flue should he try to descend on Christmas Eve. ![]()
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