The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse by Alan Bradley [Review]

The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse (Flavia de Luce #6.5) by Alan Bradley
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Date read: July 23, 2025

Flavia de Luce
1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2. The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
3. A Red Herring Without Mustard
4. I am Half-Sick of Shadows
5. Speaking from Among the Bones
6. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
6.5. The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse - Kindle
7. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
8. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
9. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
10. The Golden Tresses of the Dead
11. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust

Alan Bradley
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Murder! the letter says, Come at once. Anson House, Greyminster, Staircase No. 3. How can Flavia de Luce resist such an urgent plea? After all, examining a dead body sounds like a perfectly splendid way to spend a Sunday. So Flavia hops upon her trusted bicycle, Gladys, whose rubber tires hiss happily along the rainy road, and arrives at her father’s mist-shrouded old school. There, a terrified boy leads her to the loo where, sitting in a bathtub, is what appears to be a statue. But, no: To Flavia’s surprise, the thing is in fact a naked dead man. Save his face, he seems to have been carved out of copper. Never one to shy away from the macabre, Flavia gets to work—only to find that when an investigation begins with a metallic cadaver, ever more curious twists are to be expected.

Thoughts on The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse: This is little snippet of a mystery where Flavia is summoned to the scene of a crime and has to deduce the hows and whys in a relatively short amount of time. Given her passion for chemistry (among other things), she has the background knowledge to also sort through who would have access to the needed chemicals to do the deed.

But that's getting ahead of the mystery. First, Flavia receives a desperate call for help and immediately sets out for the local school where she finds a corpse in a most unusual state of being. Flavia being Flavia, she doesn't balk at the examination of said corpse. And after a few probing questions to the person who summoned her, it isn't long before she's figured out what happened.

Short, but fun. As all Flavia's cases seem to be. *thumbs up*