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"Langton brings back the Golden Age Murder with style, wit, and charm" as scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly finds Boston's famous museum has become a crime scene (Tony Hillerman). There are frogs in the pond at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. A balloon has been tied to one of the sculptures in the small museum's hallowed halls. And, worst of all, someone has moved paintings while no one was looking. At most museums these pranks would be an annoyance, but at the Gardner--whose founder show more stipulated that the museum be disbanded if the original collection is ever disturbed--they could spell disaster. The Gardner's board hires Harvard professor and former police lieutenant Homer Kelly to investigate the mischief. Hardly an art lover, Kelly has trouble taking the threat seriously at first. But when a museum patron is found dead after catching the prankster in the act, Homer springs into action. He may know nothing about art, but murder is something he understands all too well. show lessTags
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Jane Langton was born Jane Gillson in Belmont, Massachusetts on December 30, 1922. She received a bachelor's degree in art history in 1944 and a master's degree in art history in 1945 from the University of Michigan. She received a second master's degree in art history from Radcliffe College in 1948. She studied at the Boston Museum School from show more 1958 to 1959. Her writing career began with children's books. Her first book, The Majesty of Grace, was published in 1961. She illustrated several of her children's books. She wrote a young adult series entitled the Hall Family Chronicles. The fourth book in the series, The Fledgling, was a Newbery Honor book. She also wrote an adult mystery series entitled the Homer Kelly mysteries. The fifth book in the series, Emily Dickinson Is Dead, received a Nero Wolfe Award and an Edgar Award. In 2017, she received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award for the series. She died from complications of a respiratory condition on December 22, 2018 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Murder at the Gardner
- Original publication date
- 1988
- People/Characters
- Homer Kelly; Madeline Hepplewhite; Edward Fallfold; John Bodkin; Catherine Rule
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Fenway Court, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Dedication
- For Betty and Alvin
- First words
- Titus Moon met Catherine Rule on the back stairway of the Gardner Museum.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But the glance of her wild off eye continued to rove up and down the staircases of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and move in and out of the galleries, querying and judging, casting everything into the light of that eternity in which Catherine had always lived.
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