

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.
