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  • THE DANTE GAME
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    THE DANTE GAME
    JANE LANGTON
    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,...

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  • DARK NANTUCKET NOON
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    DARK NANTUCKET NOON
    JANE LANGTON
    Scholar and former detective Homer Kelly defends a poet accused of committing murder during an eclipse—from the "delightful and always beguiling" author ( The Boston Globe).   For 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...

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  • THE DESERTER
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    THE DESERTER
    JANE LANGTON
    Gettysburg deserter or Civil War hero? Scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly and his wife, Mary, solve the mystery of her great-great-grandfather in this "clever" novel ( Booklist).   Homer and Mary Kelly have wandered through Harvard University's Memorial Hall dozens of times, but never have they lingered over the long list of alumni who died for the Union during the Civil War. One after...

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  • EMILY DICKINSON IS DEAD
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    EMILY DICKINSON IS DEAD
    JANE LANGTON
    Edgar Award Finalist: Murder strikes the Massachusetts hometown of a literary icon, and a scholarly sleuth investigates, in a "remarkable" mystery series ( Booklist).   Although she spent her life withdrawn from the people of Amherst, Massachusetts, every man, woman, and English professor in this small university town claims ownership of poet Emily Dickinson. They give tours in...

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  • GOOD AND DEAD
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    GOOD AND DEAD
    JANE LANGTON
    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 Ch...

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  • THE MEMORIAL HALL MURDER
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    THE MEMORIAL HALL MURDER
    JANE LANGTON
    With "ebullience and good humor," the award-winning author brings back former detective Homer Kelly, now a Harvard professor, to solve a killing on campus (Eudora Welty).   An 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. N...

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  • DEAD AS A DODO
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    DEAD AS A DODO
    JANE LANGTON
    Visiting Oxford, the Harvard professor/sleuth gets a crash course in Darwin's survival of the fittest in a high-spirited whodunit that's "vintage Langton" ( Booklist).   William Dubchick is too keen a student of the writings of Charles Darwin to not see that the world of biology has evolved past him. Decades ago, he was the foremost mind in Oxford University's department of nat...

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  • DIVINE INSPIRATION
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    DIVINE INSPIRATION
    JANE LANGTON
    When an organist vanishes, the ex-cop turned Harvard professor is on the case with a "clever plot and [an] oversupply of lively, interesting characters" ( Kirkus Reviews).   An 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...

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  • THE ESCHER TWIST
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    THE ESCHER TWIST
    JANE LANGTON
    With her sense of "abandon and play," Langton sends her scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly up the down staircase on a labyrinthine search for a missing art lover (Eudora Welty).   Leonard Sheldrake knows little about Frieda except that he loves her. A Harvard professor and admirer of the bizarre engravings of M. C. Escher, Leonard is visiting a Cambridge exhibition of the artist's work...

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  • THE FACE ON THE WALL
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    THE FACE ON THE WALL
    JANE LANGTON
    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 po...

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  • GOD IN CONCORD
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    GOD IN CONCORD
    JANE LANGTON
    Walden Pond is not so tranquil when murder strikes, and it's up to scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly to restore balance in an "unflaggingly entertaining" mystery ( Kirkus Reviews).   Alice 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 Ke...

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  • MURDER AT THE GARDNER
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    MURDER AT THE GARDNER
    JANE LANGTON
    "Langton brings back the Golden Age Murder with style, wit, and charm" as scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly finds Boston's famous museum has become a crime scene (Tony Hillerman).   There are frogs in the pond at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. A balloon has been tied to one of the sculptures in the small museum's hallowed halls. And, worst of all, someone has moved paintings whi...

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  • MURDER AT MONTICELLO
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    MURDER AT MONTICELLO
    JANE LANGTON
    When Thomas Jefferson's Virginia home becomes a crime scene, scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly must stop a serial killer in this "surefire winner" ( Booklist, starred review).   Thomas Jefferson is in trouble. Two centuries after he became America's third President, the nation's historians have ganged up on him, intent on shattering the reputation of a man they once idolized. It's Fer...

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  • NATURAL ENEMY
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    NATURAL ENEMY
    JANE LANGTON
    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. H...

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  • THE SHORTEST DAY
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    THE SHORTEST DAY
    JANE LANGTON
    Prompted by his wife, Mary, Harvard scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly looks into the suspicious death of a folk singer in this "enormously appealing" mystery ( Publishers Weekly). Each 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 Appalachi...

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  • STEEPLECHASE
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    STEEPLECHASE
    JANE LANGTON
    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 de...

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  • THE THIEF OF VENICE
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    THE THIEF OF VENICE
    JANE LANGTON
    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 am...

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  • THE TRANSCENDENTAL MURDER
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    THE TRANSCENDENTAL MURDER
    JANE LANGTON
    This first book in the beloved series featuring New England cop/Emerson enthusiast Homer Kelly is "a delight . . . [a] most enjoyable murder mystery" (Eudora Welty).   The 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...

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  • THE DESERTER
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    THE DESERTER
    JANE LANGTON
    Gettysburg deserter or Civil War hero? Scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly and his wife, Mary, solve the mystery of her great-great-grandfather in this “clever” novel (Booklist).  Homer and Mary Kelly have wandered through Harvard University’s Memorial Hall dozens of times, but never have they lingered over the long list of alumni who died for the Union during the Civil War. One afterno...

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  • DARK NANTUCKET NOON
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    DARK NANTUCKET NOON
    JANE LANGTON
    Scholar and former detective Homer Kelly defends a poet accused of committing murder during an eclipse—from the “delightful and always beguiling” author (The Boston Globe).  For 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-l...

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