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Jane Langton
Winner of the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award, Jane Langton (1922–2018) was an acclaimed author of mystery novels and children’s literature. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, La...view moreWinner of the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award, Jane Langton (1922–2018) was an acclaimed author of mystery novels and children’s literature. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Langton took degrees in astronomy and art history before she began writing novels, and has set much of her fiction in the tight-knit world of New England academia.
She published her first novel, The Majesty of Grace, in 1961, and a year later began one of the young adult series that would make her famous: the Hall Family Chronicles. In The Diamond in the Window (1962) she introduced Edward and Eleanor, two New England children whose home holds magical secrets. Two years later, in The Transcendental Murder, Langton created Homer Kelly, a Harvard University professor who solves murders in his spare time. These two series have produced over two dozen books, most recently The Dragon Tree (2008), the eighth Hall Family novel.
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Books by Jane Langton
The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels Dark Nantucket Noon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Transcendental Murder Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dead as a Dodo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Divine Inspiration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Natural Enemy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Emily Dickinson Is Dead Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good and Dead Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Memorial Hall Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God in Concord Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at the Gardner Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings