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From: oday@hplabsc.UUCP (Vicki O'Day)
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Subject: Re: children's book title
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 12:40:35 EST
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> I'm trying to find the author/title of a book
> I read 10 years or more ago....
> 
> 				Diane Donaldson

This was called _The Diamond in the Window_ and was written
by Jane Langton.  She wrote several children's books and
several adult mysteries.  Her mysteries are set in in Thoreau
and Emerson country - the detectives are an ex-policeman
and ex-librarian who also happen to be scholars specializing
in the Transcendentalists.  Most of them are well-written and
funny.  The first one in the series is _The Transcendentalist
Murders_.  I've forgotten the name of the other one I liked
a lot, but it is about a poet accused of a murder that happened
on Nantucket during an eclipse of the sun (_Nantucket Noon_?).
Another good one is _The Memorial Hall Murders_ (takes place at
Harvard where the detectives are team-teaching a literature course).
Skip the one about Emily Dickinson - it's not up to the others at all.

Vicki O'Day
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