Analyzing The Book 'The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie'

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Before the book, “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” ends, there will be four main things that will happen. To begin with, Flavia will probably end up solving the mystery before the inspector, because she has more information than the inspector. Because of this, it makes sense that she would figure it out first. Secondly, one could assume that Horace Bonepenny was murdered by Dogger. Dogger seems like he’s suspicious and he seems to know about the events that have gone on between Bonepenny and Flavia’s dad. Dogger also could have somehow been involved with Mr. Twining, but that is just a guess. Thirdly, Mr. Twining didn’t commit suicide, therefore there was probably some scheme going on that involved him disappearing. When Flavia visited

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