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Crime sur les planches: Une enquête de Flavia de Luce
416 pages, Paperback
Published December 5, 2025
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Alan Bradley
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With an education in electronic engineering, Alan worked at numerous radio and television stations in Ontario, and at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in Toronto, before becoming Director of Television Engineering in the media centre at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, where he remained for 25 years before taking early retirement to write in 1994.
He became the first President of the Saskatoon Writers, and a founding member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. His children's stories were published in The Canadian Children's Annual, and his short story, Meet Miss Mullen, was the first recipient of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award for Children's Literature.
For a number of years, he regularly taught Script Writing and Television Production courses at the University of Saskatchewan (Extension Division) at both beginner and advanced levels.
His fiction has been published in literary journals and he has given many public readings in schools and galleries. His short stories have been broadcast by CBC Radio.
He was a founding member of The Casebook of Saskatoon, a society devoted to the study of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlockian writings. Here, he met the late Dr. William A.S. Sarjeant, with whom he collaborated on their classic book, Ms Holmes of Baker Street. This work put forth the startling theory that the Great Detective was a woman, and was greeted upon publication with what has been described as "a firestorm of controversy".
The release of Ms. Holmes resulted in national media coverage, with the authors embarking upon an extensive series of interviews, radio and television appearances, and a public debate at Toronto's Harbourfront. His lifestyle and humorous pieces have appeared in The Globe and Mail and The National Post.
His book The Shoebox Bible (McClelland and Stewart, 2006) has been compared with Tuesdays With Morrie and Mr. God, This is Anna.
In July of 2007 he won the Debut Dagger Award of the (British) Crimewriter's Association for his novel The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first of a series featuring eleven year old Flavia de Luce, which has since won the 2009 Agatha Award for Best First Novel,the 2010 Dilys Award,the Spotted Owl Award, and the 2010 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie has also been nominated for the Macavity, the Barry, and the Arthur Awards.
Alan Bradley lives in Malta with his wife Shirley and two calculating cats.
With an education in electronic engineering, Alan worked at numerous radio and television stations in Ontario, and at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in Toronto, before becoming Director of Television Engineering in the media centre at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, where he remained for 25 years before taking early retirement to write in 1994.
He became the first President of the Saskatoon Writers, and a founding member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. His children's stories were published in The Canadian Children's Annual, and his short story, Meet Miss Mullen, was the first recipient of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award for Children's Literature.
For a number of years, he regularly taught Script Writing and Television Production courses at the University of Saskatchewan (Extension Division) at both beginner and advanced levels.
His fiction has been published in literary journals and he has given many public readings in schools and galleries. His short stories have been broadcast by CBC Radio.
He was a founding member of The Casebook of Saskatoon, a society devoted to the study of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlockian writings. Here, he met the late Dr. William A.S. Sarjeant, with whom he collaborated on their classic book, Ms Holmes of Baker Street. This work put forth the startling theory that the Great Detective was a woman, and was greeted upon publication with what has been described as "a firestorm of controversy".
The release of Ms. Holmes resulted in national media coverage, with the authors embarking upon an extensive series of interviews, radio and television appearances, and a public debate at Toronto's Harbourfront. His lifestyle and humorous pieces have appeared in The Globe and Mail and The National Post.
His book The Shoebox Bible (McClelland and Stewart, 2006) has been compared with Tuesdays With Morrie and Mr. God, This is Anna.
In July of 2007 he won the Debut Dagger Award of the (British) Crimewriter's Association for his novel The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first of a series featuring eleven year old Flavia de Luce, which has since won the 2009 Agatha Award for Best First Novel,the 2010 Dilys Award,the Spotted Owl Award, and the 2010 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie has also been nominated for the Macavity, the Barry, and the Arthur Awards.
Alan Bradley lives in Malta with his wife Shirley and two calculating cats.
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December 16, 2025
Avec Crime sur les planches, Alan Bradley m’a fait découvrir Flavia de Luce, une héroïne de onze ans aussi attachante qu’atypique. Depuis la mort prématurée de sa mère, Flavia grandit dans un manoir aux fastes fanés, presque livrée à elle-même. Son père, absorbé par sa collection de timbres, brille par son absence, tandis que ses deux sœurs aînées, Daphné et Ophélie, la malmènent sans relâche. De ces relations conflictuelles naît chez Flavia une fascination pour les poisons, mêlant curiosité scientifique et humour noir, parfois teinté de sombres fantasmes.
Lorsqu' en plein spectacle, le marionnettiste Rupert Porson succombe à une électrocution , Flavia enfourche sa fidèle bicyclette Gladys et parcourt le village et ses environs, laissant de côté son laboratoire de chimie. Les suspects se multiplient : une femme marginale vivant dans les bois, un pasteur au comportement ambigu, une tante au passé trouble, un pilote allemand érudit et une assistante séduisante mais imprévisible. Tous semblent liés à une ancienne affaire jamais résolue par la police.
Flavia est un personnage profondément contrasté. Intelligente, manipulatrice et dotée d’un sens de l’observation redoutable, elle compense un environnement familial hostile par sa curiosité insatiable et ses connaissances en chimie. Son ingéniosité apporte à l’enquête une dimension originale et un humour noir savoureux.
Le charme du roman tient surtout à son atmosphère : une Angleterre d’après-guerre pleine de non-dits, de petites hypocrisies et de secrets enfouis. Le meurtre de Porson, personnage peu recommandable, ajoute même une forme de satisfaction morale à l’énigme, d’autant que la révélation finale m’a arraché un sourire complice.
Même sans avoir lu le premier tome, je me suis laissée emporter par le charme de cette lecture divertissante, malicieusement sombre et pleine d’humour grinçant. Un cosy mystery délicieusement rétro, parfait pour s’évader quelques heures en compagnie de l’inoubliable Flavia de Luce.
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