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Author
Series
[Homer Kelly mystery] volume 10
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
[Homer Kelly mystery] volume 15
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A murder on the ground of Jefferson's mansion at Monticello leads history buff Homer Kelly on a search for Tom Dean, a young man seen trespassing on the property, who has become the prime suspect in the killings of several local women.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Benjamin Monroe is pretty sure how his life will play out. He'll continue teaching chemistry in his small college, and spend his free time biking through the valley. Eventually, he'll retire to putter around in his garden and greenhouse. His colleague, Virginia Clark, is not one for routines. She's chatty, spontaneous, and bubbly, and before Benjamin realizes what happened, she's talked him into collaborating on a research project--studying the mating...
Author
Series
[Homer Kelly mystery] volume 11
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Prompted by his wife, Mary, Harvard scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly looks into the suspicious death of a folk singer.
45) Old bones
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver novels volume 4
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
When an old skeleton is found beneath the floor of the du Rocher estate, American "skeleton detective" Dr. Gideon Oliver is called in to uncover the secrets behind the Old Bones.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After single college professor Joy Harkness takes a position at Amherst College, she begins to restore the old Victorian home she lives in, meets a friendly handyman and embraces the close-knit community, all of which gives her a new lease on life.
Author
Publisher
Toby Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
One by one, over a period of several years, the wife and children of a prominent Hamburg citizen are being slain. Von Ditfurth has crafted a breathtaking thriller that highlights in vivid detail how present the German past is today.
48) Lunar Park
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Becoming a best-selling novelist and wealthy celebrity while still in college, only to have his fame disintegrate in a sea of booze and drugs, the narrator gets a new chance at life, but his new life unravels after a series of grotesque murders.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When the death of a Cambridge historian leaves her opus on Sir Isaac Newton unfinished, Lydia Brooke is called in to finish the book, only to find herself embroiled in a mystery in which the present becomes entangled with a past based on Newton's life.
50) Uneasy relations
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver novels volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Forensics specialist Professor Gideon Oliver joins a team researching a prehistoric burial of a human woman and a part-Neanderthal child on Gibraltar and is confronted by modern murder when two suspicious deaths rock Gibraltar.
Author
Series
[Portuguese irregular verbs series] volume 2
Publisher
Anchor
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
When Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of The Institute of Romance Philology is mistaken for a veterinarian, he ends up practicing veterinary medicine without a license, operating on a friend's dachshund with unfortunate results; transports relics for a Coptic prelate; and is pursued by lovesick widows on a Mediterranean cruise ship.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"By the New York Times bestselling author who "hilariously depicts modern dating" (Us Weekly), My Favorite Half-Night Stand is a laugh-out-loud romp through online dating and its many, many fails. Millie Morris has always been one of the guys. A UC Santa Barbara professor, she's a female-serial-killer expert who's quick with a deflection joke and terrible at getting personal. And she, just like her four best guy friends and fellow professors, is perma-single....
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian--but not an historian of the Jews--is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with...
Author
Series
[Homer Kelly mystery] volume 14
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Homer Kelly, a policeman-turned-professor and his camera-totting wife, Mary, travel to Venice for a conference on rare books. While there, thanks to a picture Mary took, they solve the theft of rare artifacts and a murder.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
English professor Lila Maclean is thrilled about her new job at prestigious Stonedale University, until she finds one of her colleagues dead. She soon learns that everyone, from the chancellor to the detective working the case, believes Lila--or someone she is protecting--may be responsible for the horrific event, so she assigns herself the task of identifying the killer. More attacks on professors follow, the only connection a curious symbol at each...
56) Crossed wires
Author
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When a 38-year-old university professor crashes his Land Rover into a tree in order to avoid killing a cat, he doesn't expect much sympathy. Certainly not from 27-year-old Mina from the call centre where his accident insurance phone call goes through to. But there's an immediate connection and before long they're talking like old friends.
Author
Series
Lila Maclean academic mystery volume 3
Publisher
Henery Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
English professor Lila Maclean is drawn into a murder investigation after she agrees to consult on Stonedale University's theatrical production of Puzzled: the musical.
Author
Series
[Homer Kelly mystery] volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As Homer and Mary Kelly research the life of Mary's ancestor Seth Morgan, the story of Seth's life and disappearance during the battle of Gettysburg unfolds.
59) The tunnel
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
After completing the manuscript of a book entitled The Guilt and Innocence of Hitler's Germany, a famous historian who teaches at a university sits down to write the introduction. But instead he finds himself writing on the guilt and innocence of his own life. A look at the craft of resurrecting the past by the author of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1433
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Binstead's Safari unfolds the fractured fairy tale of the rebirth of a drab, insecure woman as a fiercely alive, fearless beauty"--
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