Description for STEEPLECHASE by Jane Langton: In the latest Homer Kelly mystery, Homer and his wife Mary are engaged in a steeplechase, a pursuit of a mysterious lost church. Chapters alternate between present and past, and slowly the events of 1868 in the town of Nashoba unfold as a disabled Civil War vet tries to get back to normal. Central to the story is a gigantic tree, the Great Nashoba Chestnut. And crucially intermingled with its fate are a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the story of "Three Billy Goats Gruff", and the nonsense rhymes of Mother Goose. Homer and Mary Kelly will once again delve deep into the past to unravel puzzles in the present. In addition to the customary impeccable sleuthing, the author has provided numerous drawings and a number of nineteenth-century photographs. This is #18 in A Homer Kelly Mystery.
