<P> He wrote several short stories that were read on CBC Radio and published in literary magazines . Following his early retirement from the University of Saskatchewan in 1994, Bradley and his wife Shirley moved to Kelowna, British Columbia for her work, while Bradley focused full - time on writing . He wrote multiple screenplays over the course of nine years . Then, during the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire, many homes neighboring Bradley's were destroyed, although his was spared from the fire . The experience inspired him to do something different, and he began focusing on memoirs instead of screenplays . He wrote a non-fiction book called Ms Holmes of Baker Street and a memoir called The Shoebox Bible . In 2006, he began writing his first novel . </P> <P> Soon after, Bradley's wife was listening to CBC Radio as Louise Penny, a Canadian mystery author, discussed the Debut Dagger fiction competition, run by the U.K. Crime Writers' Association and sponsored by the Orion Publishing Group in Britain . The competition requires that entrants submit the first chapter and a synopsis of a murder mystery . Bradley's wife encouraged him to write something new about the "girl on the camp stool", a minor character that had emerged in the novel Bradley was working on . In early 2007, Bradley entered the Dagger contest by submitting fifteen pages about the "girl on the camp stool" character, now named Flavia de Luce . These pages, which took only a few days to write and several weeks of polishing, would become the basis of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie . Bradley set the book in England despite having never visited it . In June 2007, two judges from the contest contacted Bradley's agent in Canada to express interest in publishing the proposed book; they also inadvertently informed him that Bradley was the winner of the competition . A bidding war ensued, and on June 27, 2007, Bradley sold Orion the rights for three books in Britain . Within several days, Doubleday had purchased the Canadian rights and Bantam Books the U.S. rights . At age 69, Bradley left North America for the first time when he went to London, England to pick up the Dagger award on July 5, 2007 . </P> <P> Upon his return to Canada after the award ceremony, Bradley took a few weeks off, and then spent seven months turning the submitted fifteen pages into a full - length novel . The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie was published in the UK in January 2009 and in Canada in February 2009 . The book has since developed into a series of novels about young Flavia de Luce solving various crimes in a 1950s village . The second installment (The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag) was published in March 2010, the third (A Red Herring without Mustard) in February 2011, the fourth (I Am Half - Sick of Shadows) in December 2011, and the fifth (Speaking from Among the Bones) in January 2013 . The sixth book, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, was released in early 2014 . The series has been extended to ten books, up from an original order of six . Bradley's Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd: A Flavia de Luce Novel was published in 2016 with positive reviews . </P> <P> In 2012, director Sam Mendes optioned the Flavia de Luce series, which he intends to develop into TV movies . </P>

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