Zehre yönelik özel bir tutkuya sahip on bir yaşındaki kimyager adayı Flavie de Luce:

1. The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie (Bir Tuhaf Turta Davası, Turtanın En Tatlı Yeri)
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
7. The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse
8. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
9. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
10. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
11. The Golden Tresses of the Dead
12. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust