Here the dead are sleeping under the arch

On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old lover of chemistry and gifted detective Flavia de Luce together with family is sent to the station to meet his long-lost mother, Harriet. For a few moments before the arrival of the train on the platform of the English village of Bishop's Lacey high stranger from the crowd whispers in the ear of the girl's some kind of mysterious message, and in the next second dies under the wheels of a locomotive, and it is clear: someone deliberately pushed him on the tracks... Who was this person? Why he decided to convey his message Flavia? And that meant his last sentence?. In search of answers young detective discovers in the attic of the old mansion of Buckshaw film, recording which helps her to discover the many wonderful secrets eccentric Roda de Luz and gets involved himself Winston Churchill! Flavia ready for anything – even soar to the sky in a biplane "Blue Ghost" that belonged to Harriet, – to learn the truth about his mother.