Pat M. J. reviewed on 2/4/2010 + 66 more book reviews

My hat's off to this writer. Homer Kelly is bombastic and enthusiastic during his foray into professorship at Harvard University,
along with his co-teacher and wife, Mary, who are met with a horrifying explosion and murder on their first days to this hallowed ground. The author (a Radcliffe alum) does not succumb to ancestor worship at Harvard, but deals with current administration meeting the tragedy of destruction head on with the "fallible fools" that tend to cluster at management levels. Our interests and sympathies are taken by many of the lively characters on the immense campus; we care what happens to them, and worry about their fates versus the very real threats of defeat by elite forces in Harvard's precincts. Charming B&W line drawings and the very satisfying excerpts from Handel's Messiah scores are clever devices for advancing the interesting plot and final denouement in this first rate mystery.

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