Grave's a Fine and Private Place

Flavia is enjoying the summer, spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family. Languishing in boredom, she drags a slack hand in the water, and catches her fingers in the open mouth of a drowned corpse.

Brought to shore, the dead man is found to be dressed in blue silk with ribbons at the knee, and wearing a single red ballet slipper.

Flavia needs to put her super-sleuthing skills to the test to investigate the murder of three gossips in the local church, and to keep her sisters out of danger. But what could possibly connect the son of an executed killer, a far too canny police constable, a travelling circus, and the publican's mysteriously talented wife?

Flavia se bucura de vara, petrecandu-si zilele aruncand un ochi de-a lungul raului alaturi de familia ei reticenta. Infundata in plictiseala, ea trage o mana slaba in apa si isi prinde degetele in gura deschisa a unui cadavru inecat. Adus la tarm, mortul este gasit imbracat in matase albastra cu panglici la genunchi si purtand o papuc de balet rosu unic. Flavia trebuie sa puna la incercare abilitatile sale de super-sleuthing pentru a investiga uciderea a trei barfe in biserica locala si pentru a-si tine surorile in afara pericolului.