It is this threat that preoccupies Flavia's attention. If so, it would be, as it were, a godsend, as they are on the brink of losing Buckshaw, the home where the family has resided at least as long as Saint Tancred, to the bailiffs and His Majesty's revenue agents. This last is of particular interest to the de Luce family, who might be able to claim a financial interest in it. There doesn't seem to be any other reason to disturb his bones, unless it's to get a look at his crozier, buried with him and reputed to have been set with a spectacularly valuable diamond. Saint Tancred is about to be unearthed because it is his quincentennial - five hundred years since he died in 1451. Needless to say, number five shows up promptly, this time the church organist whose body, face shrouded in a gas mask, is discovered in the newly-opened tomb of Saint Tancred in the village church. As Flavia de Luce, who is about to turn twelve, reflects, she's stumbled across four in the past year - "One more corpse and I'll have a full hand," she says, counting on her fingers. Like Midsomer and Cabot Cove, Bishop's Lacey produces an alarming number of corpses.
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