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Dark Nantucket Noon: A Homer Kelly Mystery
Written by Jane Langton
Narrated by Derek Perkins
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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Transcendentalist scholar and former detective Homer Kelly agrees to defend a troubled young poet accused of killing her ex-loverrsquo;s new wife. To clear her name he must discover who set her up, and what happened during the two minutes of a Nantucket eclipse.
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Reviews for Dark Nantucket Noon
Rating: 3.627907013953488 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A slightly disappointing mystery was fully redeemed in my eyes by the location and atmosphere. A bizarre murder takes place during a solar eclipse. (Some issues with that, too.) But author Langton gives a tremendous amount of information on the biology of the island with its tides and wildlife. I grew up on Mass’s North Shore, and I was captivated by the immediacy of the descriptions. I’d recommend this cautiously to those who love the northeast coast, and are mystery lovers as well.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A slightly disappointing mystery was fully redeemed in my eyes by the location and atmosphere. A bizarre murder takes place during a solar eclipse. (Some issues with that, too.) But author Langton gives a tremendous amount of information on the biology of the island with its tides and wildlife. I grew up on Mass’s North Shore, and I was captivated by the immediacy of the descriptions. I’d recommend this cautiously to those who love the northeast coast, and are mystery lovers as well.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5During the few minutes of darkness during a total eclipse of the sun, a young woman is murdered on Nantucket Island. Discovered standing over her is the poet & college professor Kitty Clark, spurned lover of the dead woman's husband. Will Homer Kelly be able to convince a jury of Kitty's innocence? Probably this mystery only deserves 3* but being from Massachusetts, I loved all the details and the line drawings about Nantucket in the book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5[Dark Nantucket Noon] is the second in the Homer Kelly mystery series. I have realized that I like mysteries because I usually like the personality of the detectives and I like for my characters to have something to do. I am not really trying to solve the puzzle. In this one I really liked Kitty Clark the murder suspect. She is an eccentric poet with a loose grasp on reality at the best of times. The author tells you all about life on Nantucket Island past and present also about Herman Melville and Quakers.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I was terribly disappointed in Ms. Langton's work; I really expected to enjoy her mysteries. This one had the most ridiculous premise to begin with - which I could have forgiven - and a hole a mile wide in the murder itself - which I cannot. I don't think I'll be taking any more of her works out for test drives.