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  • The Transcendental Murder

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 1 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    In an intellectual hamlet, century-old love letters give rise to murderThe citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, never tire of their heritage. For decades, the intellectuals of this little hamlet have continued endless debates about Concord’s favorite sons: Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and their contemporaries. Concord’s latter-day transcendental scholars are a strange bunch, but none is more ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels

    Murder at the Revels

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 11 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    Homer investigates the violent deaths of a beautiful stage manager’s admirersEach year, the beautiful Sarah Bailey marks the winter solstice by organizing a pageant of drama and song for the citizens of Harvard University. Last year, the star of the show was Henry Shady, an Appalachian folk singer whose homespun charm won the eye of every young woman in Cambridge. On the eve of this year’s Revels, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Dante Game

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 8 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    In Florence, scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly must foil a plot to kill the Pope in a "voluptuously detailed" mystery in which Langton's "exuberant wit runs riot" ( The New York Times Book Review).When the Pope issues a sweeping edict calling for a yearlong war on drugs, no one is more surprised than the Vatican to find the campaign a success. In every Catholic corner of the world, young people throw ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Good and Dead

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 6 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    The scholar/sleuth investigates a series of deaths in a church congregation in an "agreeably malevolent" mystery that "comes to a spirited conclusion" ( Publishers Weekly).The Baptists of Nashoba are healthy. So are the Quakers, Lutherans, and Methodists. Every religious sect in this small New England town is in ruddy good health, save for the congregation at the Old West Church, whose members are ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Memorial Hall Murder

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 3 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    When a bomb kills the most popular man at Harvard, the entire faculty is suspectAn explosion rocks the foundations of Harvard University’s stately Memorial Hall. Built a century ago to honor alumni who died defending the Union in the Civil War, the hall is a focal point of the campus. Now it is a crime scene. A corpulent body is found inside, decapitated by the blast. The dead man is Hamilton Dow, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Divine Inspiration

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 10 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    After a new pipe organ is installed at a Boston church, an organist vanishesAn infant crawls in the dark, up the cold stone steps of Boston’s Church of the Commonwealth. It is a miracle that Alan Starr notices the child, so focused is he on the church’s new organ, whose pipes he is about to hear for the first time. He takes the baby in his arms and goes inside to inspect the magnificent new ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Thief of Venice

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 14 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    With her usual "sparkling prose and inimitable wit," the award-wining author follows her scholar/sleuth and his wife as they investigate a death in Venice ( Publishers Weekly).Four-month summer holidays, spring break, and regular sabbaticals mean that Harvard professors Mary and Homer Kelly never have trouble finding time to vacation. Unfortunately, Homer's sideline as an amateur sleuth means that ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • God in Concord

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 9 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    Homer suspects a rash of deaths near Walden Pond may not be accidentalAlice Snow is the first to die. In the morning, she and her friends at the Pond View Trailer Park watchsoap operas, worrying about the lives of TV’s rich and powerful. A few hours later, a hiking Homer Kelly finds Alice lying outside her trailer, head smashed and heart stopped. Though her fellow Pond View residents do not ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Steeplechase

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 18 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    With "clever storytelling" shifting between past and present, the final Homer Kelly mystery has the scholar/sleuth solving the puzzle of a missing church ( Booklist).Somehow, against all odds, Homer Kelly has become famous. After decades toiling in academic obscurity, the Harvard professor has a book on the bestseller list. To capitalize on his sudden fame, Homer's editor demands another book, and ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Natural Enemy

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 4 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    The award-winning author's "rare gift of genius" is on display as her scholar/sleuth investigates a suspicious death from asthma and yellow jackets ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch).John Hand visits the Heron house looking for a summer job. What he finds is a family in mourning. A few minutes after he is hired by Mrs. Heron and her daughter, Virginia, a neighbor, Buddy, finds Mr. Heron lying dead in the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Face on the Wall

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 13 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    Scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly comes to the aid of his artist niece, who's implicated in a death, in this "taut, suspenseful, and absorbing" whodunit ( Kirkus Reviews).Life has not always been fair to Annie Swann. A bad marriage sullied her youth, but since her divorce she has made enough money illustrating children's books to add a wing to her house. The new addition's focal point will be a thirty ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Dark Nantucket Noon

    by Jane Langton ...
    Series Book 2 - The Homer Kelly Mysteries
    Homer defends a crazed poet accused of using an eclipse as cover for murderFor all her life, poet Kitty Clark has waited to see a total eclipse of the sun. News of an impending eclipse thrills her until she learns it will be visible only from Nantucket, where one year ago her ex-lover Joe Green moved with his new wife. Unable to resist the astronomical lure, she flies in from Boston, and makes her ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD