05042cam a2200469 4500 285875606 TxAuBib 20170223120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781453252291 1453252290 B007OZ55T0 Amazon e504c199-4b48-4725-9286-51d404f9cd9c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 849609 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib LANGTON, JANE. The Dante Game [Libby eBook] : Homer Kelly Series, Book 8. MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4230kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Fiction. mystery. ebook. HTML:<p>March 4, 1991<br /> In another of her civilized, literary mysteries, Langton ( Emily Dickinson Is Dead ) sends professor Homer Kelly, previously at work in New England academic and historical settings, to teach at an American school in a crumbling villa in Florence, Italy. With characteristic wit (and pen-and-ink illustrations), Langton creates a love song to the architectural and cultural richness of Florence as she centers her plot around the pope's visit to a Florentine cathedral. When the villa's adulterous chambermaid and gardener are killed and a ravishingly beautiful student goes missing, Kelly is drawn into a case with ramifications reaching far beyond the concerns of the school's students and staff. One of the latter, a professor of Dante who has a criminal record in Massachusetts, finds that the literary scavenger hunt--``the Dante game''--he has devised for his class is being used to implicate the Americans in crimes occurring all over the city. The game elegantly ties together a mystery that transports readers to a passionate, sun-drenched world where classical statues turn a blind eye on murders perpetrated at their feet. (Mar.)note pub date change</p>. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:<p>Drugs, murder, and the Catholic Church confound Homer's trip to Florence</p> <p>When the Pope issues a sweeping edict calling for a yearlong war on drugs, no one is more surprised than the Vatican to find the campaign a success. In every Catholic corner of the world, young people throw down their needles to pick up crosses. In Florence, thousands of them converge on the Duomo to thank Christ for their newfound commitment to sobriety. Nearly everyone is relieved by this development—save for Leonardo Bindo, banker and druglord. To get his business back on track, he seizes upon a simple plan: Kill the Pope.</p> <p>Standing in his way is Homer Kelly, transcendentalist scholar and occasional detective. In Florence to teach at a new international university, Homer stumbles on Bindo's scheme while investigating the disappearance of a beautiful young student. His Italian may be lousy, but Homer is the only man who can save Italy from itself.</p>. HTML:<p>"After 30 years of writing whimsical mysteries about an eccentric New England philosopher named Homer Kelly, Jane Langton is still full of intellectual curiosity."</p>. HTML:<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>. HTML:<p>"Civilized, literary. . . . With characteristic wit (and pen-and-ink illustrations), Langton creates a love song to the architectural and cultural richness of Florence."</p>. HTML:<i>Publishers Weekly</i>. HTML:<p>"Like Jane Austen and Barbara Pym, Langton is blessed with the comic spirit--a rare gift of genius to be cherished."</p>. HTML:<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i>. HTML:<p>"Langton's sparkling prose and inimitable wit offer a delectable feast for the discriminating reader."</p>. HTML:<i>Publishers Weekly</i>. HTML:<p>"This remarkable series shows no signs of letting up."</p>. HTML:<i>Booklist</i>. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-02-22 23:00:01. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=e504c199-4b48-4725-9286-51d404f9cd9c https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/E50/4C1/99/DanteGame9781453252291.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E504C199-4B48-4725-9286-51D404F9CD9C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/E50/4C1/99/DanteGame9781453252291.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E504C199-4B48-4725-9286-51D404F9CD9C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/E50/4C1/99/DanteGame9781453252291.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E504C199-4B48-4725-9286-51D404F9CD9C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)