Langton: 72 books

After a new pipe organ is installed at a Boston church, an organist vanishes 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 about...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Homer investigates the violent deaths of a beautiful stage manager’s admirers 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 Appalachian folk...

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...

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IN VOLUME VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST - Part I The Adventurers of England on Hudson Bay: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade In the North by Agnes C. Laut - Part II Pathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La VÃrendrye And His Sons by Lawrence J. Burpee - Part III Adventurers of the Far North:...

Glamour, excitement, and money were thrust upon Miami in the late 1970s. Seemingly overnight, it transformed from a sleepy Southern town famous only for its retirees, to an exciting mix of wealth, style, and violence. It was the Cocaine Era, when mountains of cash, bricks of coke, and men with assault...

IN VOLUME VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY - Part I The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by A. H. U. Colquhoun - Part II The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of The First Prime Minister of The Dominion by Sir Joseph Pope - Part III The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of the 20th Century by Oscar D. Skelton.

Praise for Mary Langtons writing from The Times Herald-Record: witty essays short, mostly humorous essaysthe kind of reading that can be done in spurts, when you need a break or a laugh. an acerbic sense of humorallow[s] readers to look at their Hudson Valley town or the worlds problems and not take them as seriously.

This book considers the pollutants formed by the combustion of solid biomass fuels. The availability and potential use of solid biofuels is first discussed because this is the key to the development of biomass as a source of energy. This is followed by details of the methods used for characterisation...

A young girl in a hurry to grow up. A college student who tests the bonds of friendship. A man shackled by a problem he cannot face. An immigrant desperate to secure the American Dream. A woman whose jealousy prompts a shocking act of cruelty. These are some of the characters that populate Mary Langtons...