Dead as a Dodo: A Homer Kelly Mystery - Hardcover

Langton, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670862215 ISBN 13: 9780670862214

Publisher: Viking, 1996

Synopsis

Homer Kelly is thrilled to be at Oxford University as a visiting lecturer. He's especially excited about exploring the Oxford University Museum, which is home to many marvels of natural history, including the remains of one of the last dodos. The tranquillity of the ancient university is shattered, however, when a night watchman plunges to his death from the museum's glass roof. No sooner has Homer begun enjoying his professorial adventure abroad than he must once again play part-time detective. As he sets off on his search for answers to this most real and inauspicious death, he also begins a philosophical journey far more challenging than any begun in a classroom, and discovers a crime much more sinister and troubling: God Himself seems dead as a dodo. Who committed murder sublime? Things get even more puzzling when the handsome young local priest commits suicide, leaving a note saying simply, "The answer is no." Apparently Homer's not the only one struggling with the great questions of life.

About this title

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: Viking
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0670862215
• ISBN 13: 9780670862214
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 339