The peaceful town of Concord, Massachusetts, becomes a hotbed of intrigue and activity when the annual re-creation of the ride of Paul Revere ends in murder. And it falls to Homer Kelly to set things straight.
When Harvard's Memorial Hall is bombed, the shattering of its huge rose windows resounds throughout the campus; but when a corpulent and headless corpse is found amid the debris, and the big, beloved chorus leader, Hamilton Dow, cannot be located, more than the peace and quiet of an illustrious u...
Book Number 13 in the Homer Kelly series and one of Jane Langton's best. Annie Swann, Homer's niece and children's books illustrator, has a dream come true. A new addition to her house has a blank wall 35' long on which she is going to paint a mural of fairy stories. Eight year old, Eddie Gast...
Poet Katharine "Kitty" Clark came to Nantucket to watch the eclipse, and ended up kneeling on the beach at the base of the Maria Mitchell Observatory, next to the body of Helen Green. Kitty's knife was found buried in the sand nearby. Accused by a bystander of having killed Helen, Kitty replies "...
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” It was true that Homer had washed his hands of the two Revels tragedies, the deaths of Henry Shady and Tom Cobb, leaving both matters up to the investigative branches of the Harvard and Cambridge Police Departments. But as time went on, Homer’s fatal curiosity wa...
"Those little phones are everywhere." "I know," said Sam, looking back. "Everybody wants to—what do you call it?—show off with a telefonino." He was trying to lead the way into a broad intersection, but it was almost impossible to squeeze through crowds of tourists buying carnival masks like suns...
The sun no longer rose to the top of the sky. But the thousands of meandering tracks on the leaves of the tree were thicker than ever, as though the busy little insects were in a fury of scribbling. In spite of the bugs, the noble tree seemed well and strong. It bushed out over the rooftops and i...
He had been unsuccessful in persuading Mrs. Rutledge to believe in Charlene’s perfidious behavior, and he had failed to convince the headmistress of Weston Country Day. But in the private-school system of Middlesex County there was a higher court, the Board of Independent Schools. At their next m...
They had not written to Howie “Ebenezer” Flint to tell him they were coming. They had not even phoned, in case he put them off. Therefore when he opened his front door a crack and saw them standing on his sagging front porch, his jaw dropped and his face flushed, deepening from pink to purple. Ho...