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Guillermo Martinez (2005) The Oxford Murders. MacAdam / Cage An old lady, who worked on the Enigma Code during WWII, is found murdered in Oxford, UK. Arthur Seldom, logician and author of a book on the mathematics of serial killings solves the case - and others that soon pile up - with mathematical precision. Gödel's theorem, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and Wittgenstein's paradox are discussed, but do not break the thrill or fast pace of the book. A cerebral mystery novel. More... 
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Jane Langton (1997) Dead as a Dodo: A Homer Kelly Mystery. Penguin Books In their 12th appearance, eccentric Harvard philosophy professor Homer Kelly and his quick-witted wife Mary, contemplate Darwinism and the disappearance of Mauritius' Dodo bird, while investigating the attempted murder of Helen Farfrae and the actual killing of a young Anglican priest. A cerebral mystery, with a brilliant debate on creationism versus evolutionism. More...
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Jane Langton (2002) The Escher Twist: A Homer Kelly Mystery. Penguin In Langton's 16th Homer Kelly book the puzzling drawings of Dutch artist M.C. Escher provide clues for a mystery that is centered on the enigmatic Frieda, who has disappeared. Crystallographer Leonard Sheldrake had met Frieda at an Escher art exhibition in Cambridge and is now searching for her - with the help of Homer and his sharp wife Mary. More...
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Jane Langton (1981) The Memorial Hall Murder: A Homer Kelly Mystery. Penguin With this book Jane Langton started her series of Homer Kelly mysteries. Homer and his smart wife help Harvard students to find their lost professor. If you have ever tried to learn violin and like listening to classical music this book is for you. Here you can also find out how Harvard's Memorial Hall looked like before it was renovated in the 1990s. More...
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Carol Goodman (2008) The Night Villa: A Novel. Ballantine Books University of Texas classics professor Sophie Chase barely survives a gunman's shooting spree with ties to a sinister cult. To escape from the nightmares she joins an expedition to Capri where a team of archeologists attempts the reconstruction of a Roman villa destroyed when Mount Vesuvius buried nearby Herculaneum in A.D. 79. A story of conspiracies and sex. More... 
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Susanna Gregory (2008) The Devil's Disciples (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles). Little, Brown Book Group Ten years after the Black Death, rumors of a new plague threaten Cambridge again. In an atmosphere of chaos and student unrest a murder might be just another unexplained death, where it not for Matthew Bartholomew who solves the mystery. If you can stomach the grueling reality of a medieval English town this book is for you. More...
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