Dead As a Dodo: A Homer Kelly Mystery (Penguin Crime Fiction) - Softcover

Langton, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140247955 ISBN 13: 9780140247954

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

As part-time detective Homer Kelly sets off on his search for answers to the death of a young priest, who left nothing behind but an inauspicious and cryptic note, he finds a crime far more sinister and troubling. Reprint.

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From the Author:

Homer and Mary Kelly at Oxford
Another teaching exchange finds Homer at Oxford, stumbling over corpses as usual, and lecturing in the Oxford University Museum, where Lewis Carroll's dodo is displayed along with specimens collected by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle. The golden statues of scientists surrounding the courtyard figure in the story, along with Darwin crabs, dinosaur bones, beetles, butterflies, and absurd Jabberwockian flights of fancy. There are 61 drawings of Oxford splendors.

Synopsis:

As a visiting professor at Oxford University, Homer Kelly expects a wonderful stay in England, but when the night watchman at Oxford's museum is murdered, Homer finds himself embroiled in a web of scholarship and deceit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140247955
• ISBN 13: 9780140247954
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352