About the book: 2010 / The last representatives of an aristocratic family live in the old English Buckshaw estate - the eccentric Colonel de Luce and his three daughters. In the summer of 1950, the viscous swamp of rural life is disrupted by incredible events: the murder of a stranger and the arrest of a colonel. While the older daughters, as befits a well-mannered English lady, are sobbing into their handkerchiefs, the youngest, eleven-year-old Flavia, is delighted: finally something has happened in her life! An analytical mind, a passion for chemistry and especially poisons will help her figure out this puzzling case in which the local police broke their teeth. Flavia begins a search that will lead her to no less than the King of England himself. She is sure of one thing: the father is innocent - on the contrary, he is protecting his daughters from something terrible…