'“How do you keep a mystery series going after 16 novels? Keep finding clever things to do with it. . . . As always, Homer uses his unique intellect and insatiable curiosity to keep us entertained as he solves another mystery from the past.” —Booklist “[Langton writes with] ebullience and good humor and a sort of picnic charm of abandon and play.” —Eudora Welty “Today’s best American mystery writer.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch'