The golden tresses of th.., p.26
The Golden Tresses of the Dead,
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Words cannot express my gratitude to my dear and lamented late friend, Dr. John Harland, who, over the years, offered so much of his time, his knowledge, and his friendship. Without him, the Flavia books would have been…well, I hate even to think about it. Fair winds and safe seas, John. And thank you.
And finally, to my wife, Shirley, whom Saint Paul, having foreseen the lot of an author’s wife, described so perfectly in the glorious words of the 1599 Geneva Bible:
Love suffereth long: it is bountiful: love envieth not: love doth not boast itself: it is not puffed up:
It doth no uncomely thing: it seeketh not her own thing: it is not provoked to anger: it thinketh no evil:
It rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth:
It suffereth all things: it believeth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.
Love doth never fall away, though that prophesyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.
Isle of Man, 28th April, 2018
BY ALAN BRADLEY
Flavia de Luce Novels
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
A Red Herring Without Mustard
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Speaking from Among the Bones
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d
The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
Flavia de Luce Stories
The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse
PHOTO: © JEFF BASSETT
ALAN BRADLEY is the internationally bestselling author of many stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award.
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Alan Bradley, The Golden Tresses of the Dead
