Jane Langton
Author
Series
Homer Kelly mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
As Charlottesville, Va., prepares for a presidential visit celebrating the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's election as U.S. president, a serial killer in the area is stalking female victims. At Monticello newly hired researcher Fern Fisher is trying to burnish Jefferson's tarnished reputation, while in the surrounding woods discontented med student Tom Dean has illegally set up camp. Tom joins Fern in her researches, arguing that sponsoring Lewis...
Author
Series
Homer Kelly mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
1991
Description
Drugs, murder, and the Catholic Church confound Homer's trip to Florence 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 down their needles to pick up crosses. In Florence, thousands of them converge on the Duomo to thank Christ for their newfound commitment to sobriety. Nearly everyone is relieved...
Author
Series
Homer Kelly mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Homer and Mary Kelly become involved in the mystery of why Mary's great-great grandfather Seth Morgan, a Harvard graduate who served in the Civil War, had become persona non grata on the family tree.
Author
Series
Homer Kelly mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A hunt for a missing art lover engages Homer in a perplexing mystery 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 when he meets Frieda and falls instantly in love. As they trade remarks about the artwork, he learns a few brief things about her. Though young, she is a widow, an orphan, and...
Author
Series
Hall family chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2001, c1971
Description
By discovering they can enter the three-dimensional world of the stereoscope, two children learn something about reality.
Author
Series
Hall family chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
1981
Description
The swing in the summer house sweeps four children and two adults into frightening and mystifying journeys that help them all towards their hearts' desires.
Author
Series
Hall family chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[1962]
Description
Edward and Eleanor explore their rickety old-fashioned and sometimes mysterious house, trying to find a treasure to pay the back taxes.
Author
Series
Hall family chronicles volume 4
Description
Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose.
Author
Series
Hall family chronicles volume 6
Description
Eddy receives a mysterious gift from India, an old-fashioned bike that transports its rider through time.
Author
Series
Homer Kelly mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Murder strikes in the natural history museum of the University of Oxford, famed for its zoological specimens. PI Homer Kelly, a Harvard professor who is in town to give a lecture, will solve it.
11) Steeplechase
Author
Series
Homer Kelly mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
In a mystery in which chapters alternate between past and present, the search for a mysterious lost church by Homer Kelly and his wife Mary is juxtaposed against events in 1868 Nashoba as a Civil War veteran struggles to put his life back together.
12) God in Concord
Author
Series
Homer Kelly mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
[1993], c1992
Description
Homer suspects a rash of deaths near Walden Pond may not be accidental 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 Kelly finds Alice lying outside her trailer, head smashed and heart stopped. Though her fellow Pond View residents do not realize it, their lives are in danger too. The state-owned...
13) The fragile flag
Author
Series
Hall family chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
c1984
Description
A nine-year-old girl leads a march of children from Massachusetts to Washington, in protest against the President's new missile which is capable of destroying the earth.