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  • Emily Dickinson Is Dead

  • A Homer Kelly Mystery, Book 5
  • Written by: Jane Langton
  • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
  • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

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Emily Dickinson Is Dead

Written by: Jane Langton
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
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Publisher's Summary

Although she spent her life withdrawn from the people of Amherst, Massachusetts, every man, woman, and English professor in this small university town claims ownership of poet Emily Dickinson. They give tours in her house, lay flowers on her grave, and now, as the hundredth anniversary of her death approaches, they organize festivals in her name. Dickinson scholar Owen Kraznik has just been railroaded into organizing the event when Amherst starts to burn.

When fire consumes a fourteen-story university dormitory killing two students, transcendentalist scholar and occasional sleuth Homer Kelly considers that it may have been set on purpose. To his amazement he finds himself once again embroiled in what Dickinson called "death's tremendous nearness" as murder stalks the symposium.

©1984 Original material by Jane Langton. Recorded by arrangement with The Mysterious Press.com, LLC. (P)2013 HighBridge Company

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