Dead as a Dodo

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453247655

<DIV><b>While lecturing in England, Homer confronts the criminal dons of Oxford<BR><BR></b></div><DIV></div><DIV>William Dubchick is too keen a student of the writings of Charles Darwin to not see that the world of biology has evolved past him. Decades ago, he was the foremost mind in Oxford University&rsquo;s department of natural sciences, but as the field&rsquo;s focus narrowed to the microscopic level he became nothing more than a gray-haired, cantankerous relic. He has a small fiefdom, manned by Helen Farfrae, a committed disciple who, Dubchick is annoyed to learn, someone is trying to kill.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>It is into this world that Homer Kelly, Emersonian scholar and part-time sleuth, comes to spend a semester lecturing. Though expecting a vacation, he finds Oxford to be a swamp of theft, fraud, and murder. Besides the attempts on Farfrae&rsquo;s life, he must reckon with a murdered priest, the theft of a dodo&rsquo;s portrait, and suspicious claims that long-lost Darwinian artifacts have been found. With an academic climate like this, it&rsquo;s amazing that any of the Oxford dons live to see tenure.</div>