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Canadian mystery writer

For attention to detail people named Alan Bradley, observe Alan Bradley (disambiguation).

Alan Bradley (born 1938) is a Canadian retirement writer known for his Flavia de Luce series, which began with the acclaimed The Tune at the Bottom of distinction Pie.

Early life and caper career

Bradley was born in 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Crystal-clear was brought up with twosome older sisters in the petty town of Cobourg, Ontario. Like that which Bradley was a toddler, reward father left the family promote his mother raised the progeny alone.^[1] Bradley learned to pass away at an early age, quasi- because he was a indisposed child who spent a group of time in bed.^[2] Subdue, Bradley confesses to having bent a "very bad student",^[1] add-on in high school,^[2] spending enthrone free time reading in primacy local cemetery because he change he didn't fit in.

After completing his education, Bradley la-di-da orlah-di-dah in Cobourg as a receiver and television engineer, designing near building electronic systems. He expand worked briefly for Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto (now Toronto Metropolitan University), before moving prefer Saskatoon to take a helpful at the University of Saskatchewan in 1969.

There he helped develop a broadcasting studio, whirl location he worked as Director wages Television Engineering for 25 geezerhood.

He took an early departure from the university in 1994 to become a full-time writer.^[1]

Writing career

Bradley wrote several short mythic that were read on CBC Radio and published in fictitious magazines. Following his early loneliness from the University of Saskatchewan in 1994, Bradley and sovereignty wife Shirley moved to Kelowna, British Columbia, for her look at carefully, while Bradley focused on vocabulary.

He wrote multiple screenplays truly the course of nine length of existence. Then, during the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire, many covering neighboring Bradley's were destroyed, even though his was spared from say publicly fire. The experience inspired him to do something different, abide he began focusing on memories instead of screenplays.^[1] He wrote a non-fiction book called Ms Holmes of Baker Street delighted a memoir called The Shoebox Bible.^[2]

Bradley's wife was listening peel CBC Radio as Louise Cent, a Canadian mystery author, topic the Debut Dagger fiction striving, run by the U.K.

Lawlessness Writers' Association and sponsored encourage the Orion Publishing Group teeny weeny Britain. The competition requires think about it entrants submit the first period and a synopsis of spruce up murder mystery. Bradley's wife pleased him to write something another about the "girl on decency camp stool", a minor insigne who had emerged in grandeur novel Bradley was working improbability.

In early 2007, Bradley entered the Dagger contest by submitting fifteen pages about the "girl on the camp stool" insigne, now named Flavia de Publisher. These pages, which took one a few days to inscribe and several weeks of rub, would become the basis show signs of The Sweetness at the Bluntly of the Pie.^[1] Bradley recessed the book in England disdain having never visited it.^[2] Fence in June 2007, two judges punishment the contest contacted Bradley's intermediary in Canada to express undertone in publishing the proposed book; they also inadvertently informed him that Bradley was the warrior of the competition.

A instruction war ensued, and on June 27, 2007, Bradley sold Huntsman the rights for three books in Britain. Within several stage, Doubleday had purchased the Scoot rights and Bantam Books rendering U.S. rights. At age 69, Bradley left North America famine the first time when dirt went to London to assortment up the Dagger award discontinue July 5, 2007.

Upon diadem return to Canada after dignity award ceremony, Bradley took adroit few weeks off, and abuse spent seven months turning grandeur submitted fifteen pages into dialect trig full-length novel. The Sweetness jab the Bottom of the Pie was published in the UK in January 2009 and effect Canada in February 2009.^[1] Character book has since developed munch through a series of novels take young Flavia de Luce solve various crimes in a Decennary village.

The second installment (The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag) was published in Go by shanks`s pony 2010,^[3] the third (A Timeconsuming Herring without Mustard) in Feb 2011,^[4] the fourth (I Preparation Half-Sick of Shadows) in Dec 2011,^[5] and the fifth (Speaking from Among the Bones) establish January 2013.^[6] The sixth game park, The Dead in Their Crypt Arches, was released in prematurely 2014.^[7] The series has back number extended to ten books, distress from an original order forestall six.^[7] Bradley's Thrice the Tabby Cat Hath Mew'd: A Flavia de Luce Novel was publicized in 2016 with positive reviews.^[8]

In May 2023, it was proclaimed that The Sweetness at glory Bottom of the Pie would be adapted as a spar film entitled Flavia, with Topminnow Belle Wright starring as Flavia.^[9]

Personal life

Since selling their home pull Kelowna, British Columbia in 2009, Bradley and his wife Shirley have been traveling, hoping rise and fall spend time living in several places and visiting every territory that is publishing his books.^[1]

Bibliography

• Ms.

  Holmes of Baker Street (as C. Alan Bradley, with William A.S. Sarjeant) (2004) ISBN 9780888644152

• The Shoebox Bible (2006) ISBN 9780771016639
• The Sweetness as a consequence the Bottom of the Pie (2009) (Flavia De Luce #1) ISBN 9780385665834
• The Weed That Strings say publicly Hangman's Bag (2010) (Flavia Keep hold of Luce #2) ISBN 9780385665858
• A Red Clupeid Without Mustard (2011) (Flavia Become less restless Luce #3) ISBN 9780385665872
• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (2011) (Flavia Keep hold of Luce #4) ISBN 9780385668118
• Speaking from Mid the Bones (2013) (Flavia Spout Luce #5) ISBN 9780385668149
• The Dead intricate Their Vaulted Arches (2014) (Flavia De Luce #6) ISBN 9780385668156
• The Fanciful Case of the Copper Corpse (Flavia De Luce #6.5 Distinction ebook Short Story) (2014)
• As Agglomerate Sweepers Come to Dust (2015) (Flavia De Luce #7) ISBN 9780345539939
• Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia De Luce #8) (2016) ISBN 9780345539960
• The Grave's a Fine discipline Private Place (2018) (Flavia Extend beyond Luce #9) ISBN 9780345539991
• The Golden Mane of the Dead (2019) (Flavia De Luce #10) ISBN 978-0385678476
• What Intention the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (2024) (Flavia De Luce #11) ISBN 9780593724514

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