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The Transcendental Murder
Written by Jane Langton
Narrated by Derek Perkins
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
In an intellectual hamlet in Concord, Massachusetts, century-old love letters give rise to murder.
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Reviews for The Transcendental Murder
Rating: 3.500000023529412 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
51 ratings5 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Clearly a first novel. But you can see why the publishers accepted the manuscript. Very cleverly written with endearing characters. The later novels in the series are much better. Regardless, I love Mary and Homer.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Started pretty slow but by the time the crime was committed I was hooked, it's the first book in the series and I'll be reading more of them.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I'm surprised (given how much I loved the Langton family series) that these books should be so "meh" for me. I read a later one, and reviewers mentioned it had lost some of its earlier sparkle, so I went back to the beginning, and still, "meh." (Less than "meh," really). None of the characters engaged, there seemed to be no plot to speak of (in the first 1/5 of the book, which ought to be enough to get things going), and it only came alive in one sequence when a gullible dupe began quoting forged letters from literary luminaries--not enough to save it for me.
On to other books--there's no shortage of them!
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). I feel a lot of readers automatically render any book they enjoy 5, but I grade on a curve! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved all the quirky characters and all the history that was added in. There is a great sense of what it was like to be in 1960s Concord Massachusetts.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The year: 1967. The place: public library, Tulare, Calif. The book: The Transcendental Murder. I had just learned about the Transcendentalists in high school English, and here was the big word in the title of a mystery novel. I read it and loved it. More than four decades later, I can still remember the thrill of discovering Mary and Homer, Alice Herpitude (what a great name!), Mrs. Bewley's message from Jesus—even the anecdotes involving upside down violin music and decorating Homer's tie with cucumber and banana slices. This is Langdon's first published mystery and one of her best.