The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels (Homer Kelly Mysteries (Paperback))

Rating:
Summary: Another Great Homer Kelly Mystery!
Review: "The Shortest Day" uses an unusual (for a mystery, that is) plot device to great effect: you know whodunit early in the book and follow the good characters as they try to find out what you already know. You want to shout "Look there!" to them, and you cower when you see that the villain means to strike again. In this Homer Kelly mystery, the action is centered around the annual Christmas revels, which are to take place in Harvard's Memorial Hall, in which Mary, Homer's wife, is singing and into which Homer is himself eventually dragged kicking and screaming. As the book opens, the first of a series of murders has occurred...this one witnessed by Mary, herself. This book has just the right combination of humor, suspense, and flesh-and-blood characters - plus, of course, Ms. Langton's signature line drawings - to make it a real page-turner.

Rating:
Summary: A Christmas Mystery
Review: Set amidst a production of the Christmas Revels at Harvard, the mystery is solved by Homer Kelly, the big oaf, and his much more intuitive wife Mary. Intertwined with the richness of the Revels is the encampment of homeless people on Harvard's campus, themes of love and jealousy, and the author's beautiful line drawings of Cambridge. One of Langton's best.