Jane Langton schafft Geschichten, die sich mit den komplizierten Verbindungen zwischen Menschen und Orten auseinandersetzen und ihre Erzählungen oft in die stimmungsvollen Landschaften von Massachusetts verlegen. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch scharfen Einblick in die menschliche Psychologie und einen unverwechselbaren Erzählstil aus. Langton bewegt sich geschickt zwischen Genres, von fesselnden Krimis bis hin zu bewegenden Kindergeschichten, wobei sie stets ihre einzigartige Autorschaft beibehält. Ihre Fähigkeit, lebendige Charaktere und immersive Umgebungen zu schaffen, festigt ihren Ruf als bedeutende literarische Persönlichkeit.
When Harvard's Memorial Hall is bombed, the shattering of its huge rose windows resounds throughout the campus; but when a corpulent and headless corpse is found amid the debris, and the big, beloved chorus leader, Hamilton Dow, cannot be located, more than the peace and quiet of an illustrious university is disturbed. Is the corpse that of the missing conductor?
It all started when Georgie, hardly more than a wisp of thistledown, discovered she could jump down twelve steps in two big graceful bounds. Next, to her great delight, she learned that jumping from the porch and floating as high as the rooftop was possible too. So when the mysterious Canada goose came to her window one night it seemed only natural to climb onto his back and go off with him to learn how to really fly.Jane Langton spins a marvelous fantasy that wild delight all who dream that someday, somehow, we will magically find ourselves aloft and suddenly able to fly!
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.