LibraryThing has an interview with Alan Bradley who wrote The sweetness at the bottom of the pie, and The weed that strings the hangman's bag - both featuring the intrepid 11 year old Flavia de Luce solving crimes and in particular using her passion for chemistry...
http://www.librarything.com/author/bradleyalan/interview
Alan Bradley said " An utterly competent 11 year old female was, in my opinion, long overdue in mystery fiction. I believe that the intelligence of girls is often discounted nowadays, not only by society, but sometimes by the girls themselves. As if it's a sin to be brilliant!"
At the end of the interview is mention of "Legacy Libraries" for Lawrence Durrell and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring books that they were known to have owned...
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