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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, and their contemporaries. Concord's latter-day transcendental...
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, and their contemporaries. Concord's latter-day transcendental...
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 5
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First arson, then murder strike Emily Dickinson's hometown Although she spent her life withdrawn from the people of Amherst, Massachusetts, every man, woman, and English professor in this small university town claims ownership of poet Emily Dickinson.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 her house, lay flowers on her grave, and now, as the hundredth anniversary of her death approaches, they organize festivals in her name. Dickinson scholar Owen Kraznik has just been...
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 4
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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,...
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 7
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Within the palatial walls of Boston's Gardner Museum, paintings by Botticelli and Titian shed artistic light on a hodgepodge of lesser collectibles, all forever fixed in place as decreed by the inflexible terms of Isabella Stewart Gardner's will, which demands that the whole collection be auctioned off should any changes or unwelcome disturbances occur. The museum's very boyish director, Titus Moon, turns a blind eye to such pranks as tadpoles in...
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 15
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While visiting Monticello for the bicentennial celebration of Thomas Jefferson's presidency, Homer Kelly takes on the case of a mysterious trespasser suspected in the recent serial slayings of young Monticello women.
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 16
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c2002
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An exhibit of work by Escher leads to the disappearance of an enigmatic woman named Frieda, and Homer and Mary Kelly agree to help their friend Leonard find her, plunging them all into a maze of murder, dark secrets, and ghosts.
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