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Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts--escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi--and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.

After a new pipe organ is installed at a Boston church, an organist vanishes An infant crawls in the dark, up the cold stone steps of Boston's Church of the Commonwealth. It is a miracle that Alan Starr notices the child, so focused is he on the church's new organ, whose pipes he is about to hear for the first time. He takes the baby in his arms and goes inside to inspect the magnificent new instrument, designed to the specifications of the church's...

Mary Kelly is troubled by the apparently accidental death of a folksinger slated to perform in the Christmas revels at Harvard's Memorial Hall, and when more male participants in the annual gala, led by beloved director Sarah Bailey, are found dead, Mary is sure her suspicions are correct.

A biography of the life and works of painter Winslow Homer.

Children's illustrator Annie Swann is happy with the new wing on her home where she can finally paint the mural she's been planning for years. But someone keeps defacing it, no matter how many times she paints over it, and then she finds the son of her tenant dead under the mural wall. It's up to her uncle, sleuth Homer Kelly to save Annie and her beloved wall.

Edward Heron died gasping for breath, yellow-jackets swarming around him. Had his asthma finally killed him...or something more sinister? Heron's death affects many people in his small New England community: spinster sisters, a real estate developer with an eye on Edward's property and a long time neighbor, Buddy Whipple. Enter Homer Kelly, another neighbor, also a Thoreau scholar and an ex-detective. With the help of his nephew, an amateur naturalist,...

Homer Kelly, retired detective, sets out to learn who's killing the retirees of Pond View of Concord, Massachusetts.

Within the palatial walls of Boston's Gardner Museum, paintings by Botticelli and Titian shed artistic light on a hodgepodge of lesser collectibles, all forever fixed in place as decreed by the inflexible terms of Isabella Stewart Gardner's will, which demands that the whole collection be auctioned off should any changes or unwelcome disturbances occur. The museum's very boyish director, Titus Moon, turns a blind eye to such pranks as tadpoles in...