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**Drugs, murder, and the Catholic Church confound Homers trip to Florence** When the Pope issues a sweeping edict calling for a yearlong war on drugs, no one is more surprised than the Vatican to find the campaign a success. In every Catholic corner of the world, young people throw down their needles to pick up crosses. In Florence, thousands of them converge on the Duomo to thank Christ for their newfound commitment to sobriety. Nearly everyone is relieved by this developmentsave for Leonardo Bindo, banker and druglord. To get his business back on track, he seizes upon a simple plan: Kill the Pope. Standing in his way is Homer Kelly, transcendentalist scholar and occasional detective. In Florence to teach at a new international university, Homer stumbles on Bindos scheme while investigating the disappearance of a beautiful young student. His Italian may be lousy, but Homer is the only man who can save Italy from itself. ### From Publishers Weekly In another of her civilized, literary mysteries, Langton ( Emily Dickinson Is Dead ) sends professor Homer Kelly, previously at work in New England academic and historical settings, to teach at an American school in a crumbling villa i

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Author
Langton, Jane, 1922-
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780670834396
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, American Fiction
Rating
4.1 / 5 (31 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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