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Langton, Jane Gillson was born on December 30, 1922 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Joseph Lincoln and Grace Irene (Brown) Gillson.
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Detective Book Club Make No Bones the Copper Peacock God in Concord (Detective Book Club)
(3 books in one)
3 books in one
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The Dante Game (Homer Kelly Mystery)
(The Dante Game takes Homer Kelly to magnificent, mysterio...)
The Dante Game takes Homer Kelly to magnificent, mysterious Florence, where he finds himself entangled in a mystery of murdered lovers, the disappearance of a star pupil, and a heroin ring shut down by the Pope's antidrug campaign.
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Dead As a Dodo: A Homer Kelly Mystery
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THE PRICE OF SILENCE - EMILY DICKINSON IS DEAD - A LEGACY FROM TENERIFE
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Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.
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The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg
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“I’d been wanting for a long time to use the Civil War as a background, but couldn’t imagine how to do it. One day while taking a walk it dawned on me that since my long-suffering characters Homer and Mary Kelly teach and work in Harvard’s Memorial Hall, they could become interested in the memorial tablets lining the walls of the corridor, tablets listing the names of Harvard men who fell in the war. It was a way in.” Jane Langton has set part of this dramatic story in the present and part during the great battle of Gettysburg. In the here-and-now, Homer and Mary Kelly try to trace the mysterious shame attached to the name of Mary's ancestor, Seth Morgan, a young student who served his country during the Civil War. In other chapters the secrets of what happened to Seth all those many years ago are unraveled in Jane Langton’s inimitable style. The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg is illustrated with authentic nineteenth century photographs, some of actual soldiers who fought and died in the battle, others chosen from anonymous photographs to represent fictional characters. Among these are Seth Morgan's pregnant wife, Ida, who trudges across the battlefield in search of him; Ida’s younger brother, Eben, who sets out to bring Ida home but joins up instead; and Dr. Alexander Clock, who attends Ida's delivery in the Patent Office hospital in wartime Washington. Most importantly, readers will be introduced to that infamous skedaddler, Private Otis Pike, along with Pike’s lady friend, buxom dancer Lily LeBeau. No three days in history are more dramatic in American memory than the battle of Gettysburg. Langton's characters take part (or refuse to take part) in the rush to battle on the first day, the fatal abandonment of Union trenches on the second day, the deadly charge to regain them on the morning of the third day, and the mighty artillery duel and final repulse of the Rebel assault that afternoon. As Homer and Mary combine clues from both the past and present, they finally solve the perplexing puzzle of what really happened to Seth Morgan. In a final chapter some of the famous men and women of the 1860's speak up, and Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural brings the story to an eloquent close. In The Deserter, Jane Langton has once again outdone herself, which, as her legions of passionate devotees know, is saying quite a lot indeed.
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Murder at Monticello : A Homer Kelly Mystery, Illustrations by the Author
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The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels (A Homer Kelly Mystery) Mass Market Paperback
(Langton fans will love curling up in front of a roaring h...)
Langton fans will love curling up in front of a roaring holiday fire with her latest Homer Kelly adventure--a rich Christmas brew spiced with medieval revelry, a romantic rivalry, and a soupcon of murder. Line drawings.
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Murder at the Gardner : A Novel of Suspense: A Homer Kelly Mystery (Penguin Crime Monthly)
(Tadpoles in the fountain lead to murder in the corridor o...)
Tadpoles in the fountain lead to murder in the corridor of Boston's IsabellaStewart Gardner Museum. The trustees call in Homer Kelly, ex-cop and Harvardlecturer, to solve the case.
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The Face on the Wall: A Homer Kelly Mystery
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Dark Nantucket Noon (Homer Kelly)
(When a murder occurs on Nantucket Island, solutions are f...)
When a murder occurs on Nantucket Island, solutions are found at the whaling museum library and the town?s bookshop. Bibliomystery.
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The Shortest Day: Homer Kelly: Mystery at the Revels
(In the midst of the traditional Christmas Revels in Cambr...)
In the midst of the traditional Christmas Revels in Cambridge, the jealous husband of an attractive stage director turns the pageantry into an unhappy affair, bringing Homer Kelly to the scene in his eleventh case. Tour.
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The Transcendental Murder (Homer Kelly Mysteries, No. 1)
(Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most...)
Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most outsiders realize, but usually that violence is confined to the printed page. Not so in Concord, Mass., where the arrival of Homer Kelly, an expert on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, has stirred up passions concerning a manuscript that may or may not have been written by Henry David Thoreau. Things come to a head during the town?s annual re-enactment of Paul Revere?s famous ride, when one of the ?Minutemen? turns up dead, still in full Revolutionary regalia. Accustomed to little more than the odd stolen bicycle, the local police are way over their head, but Kelly?in this, his first outing?proves as gifted at sleuthing as he is at scholarship.
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Steeplechase: A Homer Kelly Mystery, Book 18
( A search for a missing church leads Homer to a century-...)
A search for a missing church leads Homer to a century-old mystery 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 fast. Homer is working on Steeplechase, a tour of churches in and around his little patch of Massachusetts, and at his editor's request he goes searching for some ancient gossip to spice up his new work. What he finds is a baffling Reconstruction-era mystery. Hot-air balloons, nursery rhymes, and the great chestnut tree in the village of Nashoba all form part of Homer's ancestors' thrilling story. As the tale shifts between 1868 and the present day, a picture emerges of a small-town Massachusetts that's hardly changed, and a secret which, if it weren't for Homer, may have stayed buried for all time.
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God in Concord: A Homer Kelly Mystery
(When the elderly residents of Concord Breezes, a retireme...)
When the elderly residents of Concord Breezes, a retirement community in Massachusetts, begin dying systematically, retired detective and Concord resident Homer Kelly works overtime to save the surviving seniors from an unknown killer. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
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Steeplechase: A Homer Kelly Mystery (Homer Kelly Mysteries)
( "A lost church?" said Homer Kelly. "How could a chu...)
"A lost church?" said Homer Kelly. "How could a church get itself lost? You mean it just pointed its steeple at the horizon and took off?" His wife sucked her pencil. "I know it sounds strange." Strange or not, Homer and Mary are soon engaged in a steeplechase, a pursuit of the mysterious lost church. Luckily, the reader is in on the mystery. This sequel to The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg is set in 1868 in the town of Nashoba, Massachusetts, where the daughter of the Reverend Josiah Gideon cares for her husband, James, brutally disfigured in the last battle of the Civil War. In the parsonage across the town green, the Reverend Horatio Biddle fumes at what he considers to be Josiah's brazen ways, while Mrs. Biddle spies on the outhouse in Josiah's backyard. Central to the story is a gigantic tree, the Great Nashoba Chestnut. Crucially intermingled with its fate are a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the story "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," and the nonsense rhymes of Mother Goose. Homer and Mary Kelly will once again delve deep into the past to unravel puzzles in the present. This novel includes charming drawings by the author and a number of nineteenth-century photographs.
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Murder At the Gardner : Think Fast, Mr. Peters : The Body in the Volvo
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detective
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Divine Inspiration: A Homer Kelly Mystery
(Jane Langton returns with her "most inventive and exhilar...)
Jane Langton returns with her "most inventive and exhilarating Homer Kelly mystery" (New York Times Books Review). At a church in Boston, an abandoned baby suddenly appears. Who is he? Organist Alan Starr and Homer Kelly team up to find out--with possibly deadly results.
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God in Concord-A Homer Kelly Mystery
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Good and Dead (Homer Kelly Mystery)
(Homer Kelly is back...a distinguished Thoreau scholar and...)
Homer Kelly is back...a distinguished Thoreau scholar and professor of American literature, also an ex-detective for Middlesex County. But for now he's camped out at a small New England church, trying to figure out why so many parishioners are ending up dead so soon. Homer's job is to untangle murders from natural death. He finds the flock, so devout on Sundays, capable of breaking most commandments the other six days. "Keeps you on edge from start to finish." (Publisher's Source)
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The Memorial Hall Murder: A Homer Kelly Mystery
(Harvard's Memorial Hall is bombed, and amid the debris an...)
Harvard's Memorial Hall is bombed, and amid the debris an headlesscorpse is found. When Hamilton Dow, the beloved chorus leader is missing, the peace and quiet of an illustrious university are disturbed. Are the corpse and the missing conducter one and the same? Has the hall, with its passages and catwalks been used to hatch a murder plot? The local police get nowhere, and it takes Homer Kelly, visiting professor and retired policeman, to unravel the tangled plot in this elegant and funny mystery.
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Murder At Monticello
(Invited to the Virginia bicentennial celebration of Jeffe...)
Invited to the Virginia bicentennial celebration of Jefferson's presidency, Homer is excited to join the festivities. But more than fireworks are about to explode at Monticello. A scholar is working on a book exonerating the founding father from latter-day criticism and scandal. Camped in the dark woods behind Monticello is a young trespasser, Tom Dean, who swears that the only Jeffersonian good deed was his sponsorship of the Lewis and Clark expedition. And somewhere a vicious murderer of local women is on the prowl. When Tom is arrested as a prime suspect, Homer is drawn into the lives of the two troubled Toms: Jefferson, with the historian; and Dean, with the law. Langston weaves together scholarship, style, murder and mayhem to create a mystery masterpiece. "A masterpiece of cunning and mayhem." (Publishers Weekly)
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Her Majesty, Grace Jones
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The Shortest Day: Murder At The Revels - A Homer Kelly Mystery
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Emily Dickinson Is Dead
('Miss Langton is a sensitive writer...and knows how to bu...)
'Miss Langton is a sensitive writer...and knows how to build up suspense.' New York Times Book Review Poet Emily Dickinson had been dead a hundred years when her fans converged for a memorial symposium. Passions are soon running alarmingly high at this select gathering, and with arson, a demo and then a very dead woman, the serenity is rudely shattered. AndHomer Kelly, academic and ex-policeman, finds himself embroiled ina very strange investigation.
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The Shortest Day Murder at the Revels
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Memorial Hall Murders By Jane Langton (Penguin Crime)
(well preserved book)
well preserved book
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Her Majesty, Grace Jones (formerly The Majesty of Grace)
(When Grace discovered that she had not been born in Ameri...)
When Grace discovered that she had not been born in America, she began thing. And when Geraldine said that Grace looked like Princess Elizabeth, Grace just knew that secretly she was the rightful heir to the British throne. Of course, nobody else knew. Certainly her brother, Will, and her little sister, Sophie, did not treat her like a princess. Life in Ohio during The Depression was not very regal, especially since Pop lost his job. But life for the future Queen of England and her family was always filled with the unexpected. In this new edition of The Majesty of Grace, Jane Langton's well-loved story of an irrepressible girl is complemented by Emily Arnold McCully's spirited illustrations.
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Dead As a Dodo: A Homer Kelly Mystery Hardcover November 1, 1996
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The Dragon Tree (Hall Family Chronicles)
( One mystical tree. One dangerous neighbor. Strange and...)
One mystical tree. One dangerous neighbor. Strange and magical things continually occur at the Hall family's home at 40 Walden Street. Now there's a terrible sound throughout the town of Concord—the buzzing of a chain saw. Only one thing is worse for Eddy and Georgie Hall than that noise: the man who causes it, Mortimer Moon. When all the trees in town are falling to his hand and he threatens the mysterious tree sprouting in the Halls' backyard, Georgie and Eddy will do anything to stop him. In the eighth installment of the Hall Family Chronicles, secrets—all caused by the growth of a miraculous tree—will be unlocked.
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The Escher Twist: A Homer Kelly Mystery
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, is home to Homer and Mary Kelly...)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, is home to Homer and Mary Kelly, Harvard University, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and Leonard Sheldrake. Leonard, Homer's friend, often compares the many-faceted Cambridge to a favorite engraving, filled with strange power and wonder, by the twentieth-century Dutch artist Maurits Escher. So he is thrilled when Cambridge hosts an Escher exhibit. There, Leonard is smitten by a mysterious woman in a green coat named Frieda who is equally enthralled by the artist's brilliance. But Frieda hurries off without divulging her last name, her address, or her phone number. Despite their all-too-brief encounter, Leonard is now desperately in love with this elusive woman-and desperate to find her. Homer and Mary offer to help, but soon their search takes on the aspect of an Escher-etched labyrinth in which they will encounter past murders and present secrets, modern fortune- tellers and the graveyard ghosts of Mount Auburn. A feast of art, erudition, intrigue, and humor, The Escher Twist is a fantastic read for Jane Langton's legion of fans.
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Her Majesty, Grace Jones = Formerly the Majesty of Grace
(First of all, Grace discovered that she had not been born...)
First of all, Grace discovered that she had not been born in America. Then, Geraldine said that Grace looked like Princess Elizabeth. That clinched it! Even though she lived in Ohio, Grace decided that she was really the rightful heir to the British throne. But, since nobody knew Grace was a princess, nobody treated her like royalty. Jane Langton has written a funny and perceptive story for pre-teenage readers about an irresistible girl, who is the joy and despair of her family.
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The Time Bike (The Hall Family Chronicles)
( The new bike isn‘t pretty... Not like the slick, red...)
The new bike isn‘t pretty... Not like the slick, red, twenty–one–speed bike that was stolen the very night Eddy had received it as a birthday present. The bike that Prince Krishna sent is old–fashioned and has a wicker basket –– the kind of bike no self–respecting boy like Eddy would be caught dead riding. Soon, though, Eddy doesn‘t care how the bike looks, because it has the ability to travel in ways he never thought possible –– in the fourth dimension. Eddy can‘t wait to take the ride of his life, visit important dates in history, and find a way to bypass exam week. But trips through time can have unpredictable results, and they‘re not always without danger...
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Homer Kelly novels (Dark Nantucket Noon / God in Concord / the Face on the Wall / Dead As a Dodo / Shortest Day / Murder at the Gardner ) (Homer Kelly Mysteries)
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The Minuteman Murder (formerly The Transcendental Murder) A Murder Ink
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The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels (A Homer Kelly Mystery)
(Langton fans will love curling up in front of a roaring h...)
Langton fans will love curling up in front of a roaring holiday fire with her latest Homer Kelly adventure--a rich Christmas brew spiced with medieval revelry, a romantic rivalry, and a soupcon of murder. Line drawings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140173773/?tag=2022091-20
Natural Enemy (Penguin crime fiction)
(Edward Heron died gasping for breath, yellow-jackets swar...)
Edward Heron died gasping for breath, yellow-jackets swarming around him. Had his asthma finally killed him...or something more sinister? Heron's death affects many people in his small New England community: spinster sisters, a real estate developer with an eye on Edward's property and a long time neighbor, Buddy Whipple. Enter Homer Kelly, another neighbor, also a Thoreau scholar and an ex-detective. With the help of his nephew, an amateur naturalist, he goes to work on the case. "Everything is just right. A wry perceptive talent at his best." (The New Republic)
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The Thief of Venice: A Homer Kelly Mystey
(In Homer Kelly's new adventure the fabled squares and pal...)
In Homer Kelly's new adventure the fabled squares and palaces of Venice contain holy relics, hidden gold, and an occasional defunct human being. Never has Jane Langton been more enchanting or thrilling than in her fourteenth Homer Kelly mystery, The Thief of Venice. In a setting splendidly evoked by her line drawings, characters from the wryly innocent to the brilliantly sinister play out a serpentine story of divine mystery, immortal art, and mortal remains. The seductive city of Venice has lured Homer Kelly to a rare books conference and his wife, Mary, into the streets of the city, armed with a camera. While Homer basks in the Biblioteca Marciana, Mary's snapshots reveal more than she intended. In one of her simple tourist images of San Marco, gondolas on jade-green canals, the Rialto Bridge, the labyrinthine streets, the house of Tintoretto, and the Ghetto Vecchio, appears the figure of a missing woman. Thus begins a case that leads to a bona fide miracle and the discovery of a treasure painfully recalling the fate of Venetian Jews in World War II, culminating in an elaborate chase across a maze of ancient bridges as the acqua alta water rises up out of the canals, threatening all Venetians!
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The Mysterious Circus (Hall Family Chronicles)
( Life in the Halls' house in Concord is many things, but...)
Life in the Halls' house in Concord is many things, but it is never boring. Even something as simple as having a family friend come for a visit can lead to the unexpected, the enchanted, the mysterious -- in this case, the most amazing, most mysterious circus ever. From Uncle Krishna's garbled phone message to the fantastic ending, the latest Hall Family Chronicle has all of the earmarks of a Jane Langton novel: fantasy, humor, and magic! Join Eleanor, Eddie, Georgie, their new friend Andy, and his twelve very large friends -- more about them later -- in Jane Langton's The Mysterious Circus.
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The Mysterious Circus (Hall Family Chronicles) by Langton, Jane (2005) Hardcover
(First Edition)
First Edition
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The Mysterious Circus THE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUS By Langton, Jane ( Author )May-10-2005 Hardcover
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- Dark Nantucket Noon: Signed
- Good and Dead ("This agreeably malevolent book has a goodly number ...)
- Dark Nantucket Noon: A Homer Kelly Mystery (Poet Katharine "Kitty" Clark came to Nantucket ...)
- The Face on the Wall (Homer Kelly Mystery)
- The Hedgehog Boy: A Latvian Folktale by Jane Langton (1985-10-03)
- The Hedgehog Boy: A Latvian Folktale
- Saint Francis & the Wolf by Jane Langton (2007-04-01)
- The Fragile Flag (Everything depends on them.... When Georgie Hall decides ...)
- The Boyhood of Grace Jones (A young girl persists in being a tomboy despite the disap...)
- The Thief of Venice: A Homer Kelly Mystery (Homer Kelly Mysteries) (Leaving Concord, Massachusetts, for a six-week sabbatical...)
- Natural Enemy/The Memorial Hall Murder/The Transcendental Murder/Dark Nantucket Noon (Four novels in the Homer Kelly series by Jane Langton)
- The Fragile Flag by Langton, Jane (2002) Paperback
- Dead As a Dodo (A Homer Kelly Mystery)
- Langton Jane : Transcendental Murder(R/I) (Penguin Crime Monthly) by Mrs Jane Langton (1991-02-05)
- Saint Francis & the Wolf (Saint Francis was born in 1182, the son of a wealthy merc...)
- Saint Francis & the Wolf by Jane Langton (2007-04-01)
- The Memorial Hall Murder (Homer Kelly) (When a bomb kills the most popular man at Harvard, the en...)
- God in Concord (A Homer Kelly Mystery) (When the retirees of the trailer park community located o...)
Jane Gillson Langton
Edit ProfileEducation
She studied astronomy at Wellesley College and the University of Michigan, receiving a bachelor"s degree in 1944. She studied at the Boston Museum School from 1958 to 1959.
Career
She both writes and illustrates her novels. She received an Master of Arts in art history from the University of Michigan in 1945, and another Master of Arts from Radcliffe College in 1948. In 1961 Langton wrote and illustrated her first book for children, The Majesty of Grace, a story about a young girl during the Depression who is certain she will some day be Queen of England.
Langton has since written a children"s series, The Hall Family Chronicles, and the Homer Kelly murder mystery novels.
She has also written several stand-alone novels and picture books Langton"s novel The Fledgling is a Newbery Honor book
The Face on the Wall was an editors" choice selection by The Drood Review of Mystery for 1998. Langton lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, near the town of Concord, the setting of many of her novels.
Her husband, Bill, died in 1997.
Langton has three adult sons: Chris, David and Andy. "Jane Langton is a master blender. She mixes Indian magic, the transcendental philosophies of Emerson and Thoreau, and the plain everyday life of Concord, Massachusetts, and comes up with a splendid fantasy."—Boston Globe
"Always a witty and literate writer"—Chicago Tribune.
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The Thief of Venice: A Homer Kelly Mystery (Homer Kelly Mysteries)
(Leaving Concord, Massachusetts, for a six-week sabbatical...)
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God in Concord: A Homer Kelly Mystery
(When the elderly residents of Concord Breezes, a retireme...)
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The Dante Game (Homer Kelly Mystery)
(The Dante Game takes Homer Kelly to magnificent, mysterio...)
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God in Concord (A Homer Kelly Mystery)
(When the retirees of the trailer park community located o...)
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The Shortest Day: Homer Kelly: Mystery at the Revels
(In the midst of the traditional Christmas Revels in Cambr...)
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The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels (A Homer Kelly Mystery) Mass Market Paperback
(Langton fans will love curling up in front of a roaring h...)
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The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels (A Homer Kelly Mystery)
(Langton fans will love curling up in front of a roaring h...)
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Good and Dead
("This agreeably malevolent book has a goodly number of it...)
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Dark Nantucket Noon: A Homer Kelly Mystery
(Poet Katharine "Kitty" Clark came to Nantucket to watch t...)
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The Memorial Hall Murder (Homer Kelly)
( When a bomb kills the most popular man at Harvard, the ...)
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The Thief of Venice: A Homer Kelly Mystey
(In Homer Kelly's new adventure the fabled squares and pal...)
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The Transcendental Murder (Homer Kelly Mysteries, No. 1)
(Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most...)
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The Escher Twist: A Homer Kelly Mystery
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, is home to Homer and Mary Kelly...)
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Steeplechase: A Homer Kelly Mystery, Book 18
( A search for a missing church leads Homer to a century-...)
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Murder At Monticello
(Invited to the Virginia bicentennial celebration of Jeffe...)
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Dark Nantucket Noon (Homer Kelly)
(When a murder occurs on Nantucket Island, solutions are f...)
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Divine Inspiration: A Homer Kelly Mystery
(Jane Langton returns with her "most inventive and exhilar...)
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The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg
( “I’d been wanting for a long time to use the Civil War ...)
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Murder at the Gardner : A Novel of Suspense: A Homer Kelly Mystery (Penguin Crime Monthly)
(Tadpoles in the fountain lead to murder in the corridor o...)
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The Boyhood of Grace Jones
(A young girl persists in being a tomboy despite the disap...)
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The Memorial Hall Murder: A Homer Kelly Mystery
(Harvard's Memorial Hall is bombed, and amid the debris an...)
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Her Majesty, Grace Jones (formerly The Majesty of Grace)
(When Grace discovered that she had not been born in Ameri...)
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The Mysterious Circus (Hall Family Chronicles)
( Life in the Halls' house in Concord is many things, but...)
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Natural Enemy (Penguin crime fiction)
(Edward Heron died gasping for breath, yellow-jackets swar...)
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Her Majesty, Grace Jones = Formerly the Majesty of Grace
(First of all, Grace discovered that she had not been born...)
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Saint Francis & the Wolf
(Saint Francis was born in 1182, the son of a wealthy merc...)
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Natural Enemy/The Memorial Hall Murder/The Transcendental Murder/Dark Nantucket Noon
(Four novels in the Homer Kelly series by Jane Langton)
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Steeplechase: A Homer Kelly Mystery (Homer Kelly Mysteries)
( "A lost church?" said Homer Kelly. "How could a chu...)
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Emily Dickinson Is Dead
('Miss Langton is a sensitive writer...and knows how to bu...)
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The Fragile Flag
( Everything depends on them.... When Georgie Hall decide...)
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The Time Bike (The Hall Family Chronicles)
( The new bike isn‘t pretty... Not like the slick, red...)
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THE PRICE OF SILENCE - EMILY DICKINSON IS DEAD - A LEGACY FROM TENERIFE
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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Good and Dead (Homer Kelly Mystery)
(Homer Kelly is back...a distinguished Thoreau scholar and...)
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Memorial Hall Murders By Jane Langton (Penguin Crime)
(well preserved book)
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The Dragon Tree (Hall Family Chronicles)
( One mystical tree. One dangerous neighbor. Strange and...)
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Detective Book Club Make No Bones the Copper Peacock God in Concord (Detective Book Club)
(3 books in one)
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The Mysterious Circus (Hall Family Chronicles) by Langton, Jane (2005) Hardcover
(First Edition)
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Murder At the Gardner : Think Fast, Mr. Peters : The Body in the Volvo
(detective)
- Dark Nantucket Noon: Signed
- Dead As a Dodo: A Homer Kelly Mystery
- Murder at Monticello : A Homer Kelly Mystery, Illustrations by the Author
- The Face on the Wall: A Homer Kelly Mystery
- The Face on the Wall (Homer Kelly Mystery)
- The Hedgehog Boy: A Latvian Folktale by Jane Langton (1985-10-03)
- God in Concord-A Homer Kelly Mystery
- The Hedgehog Boy: A Latvian Folktale
- Saint Francis & the Wolf by Jane Langton (2007-04-01)
- Her Majesty, Grace Jones
- The Shortest Day: Murder At The Revels - A Homer Kelly Mystery
- The Shortest Day Murder at the Revels
- Dead As a Dodo: A Homer Kelly Mystery Hardcover November 1, 1996
- The Fragile Flag by Langton, Jane (2002) Paperback
- Dead As a Dodo (A Homer Kelly Mystery)
- Langton Jane : Transcendental Murder(R/I) (Penguin Crime Monthly) by Mrs Jane Langton (1991-02-05)
- Homer Kelly novels (Dark Nantucket Noon / God in Concord / the Face on the Wall / Dead As a Dodo / Shortest Day / Murder at the Gardner ) (Homer Kelly Mysteries)
- The Minuteman Murder (formerly The Transcendental Murder) A Murder Ink
- Saint Francis & the Wolf by Jane Langton (2007-04-01)
- The Mysterious Circus THE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUS By Langton, Jane ( Author )May-10-2005 Hardcover
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The Thief of Venice: A Homer Kelly Mystery (Homer Kelly Mysteries)
Connections
Married William Gale Langton, June 10, 1943 (deceased April 1997). Children: Christopher, David, Andrew.
Education
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1944
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1945
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1948
Awards
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Nero Award; Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.