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DARK NANTUCKET NOON by Jane Langton

DARK NANTUCKET NOON

A Homer Kelly Mystery

illustrated by Jane Langton

Pub Date: Jan. 22nd, 1974
ISBN: 0140058362
Publisher: Harper & Row

The mystery is somewhat waterlogged by the environs, Nantucket, but Miss Langton's audience — the younger girls she formerly wrote for and the older ones they grew into — won't mind since there's lots of local folkways and bylaws, Nantucket having kept itself to itself; lots of instruction about the tides and the shellfish and the shells; a romance; a clever use of Melville with whom Miss Langton is on close speaking/citing terms; and finally the death of a young woman who represented local conservation but. . . . A beach plum.