New York: Harper & Row, (1964) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Langton's quite scarce first mystery set in Concord, Massachusetts and introducing scholarly detective Homer Kelly. Not only does he meet Mary, his future wife, a six foot tall librarian working on a book about the women of Transcendentalism, but he becomes involved in a murder which occurred right after the Patriot's Day Parade. Illustrated with drawings by the author. An interesting association copy INSCRIBED by Langton on the title page to her cousin with the note "of a generation I'm proud to pretend to belong to." Dust jacket praise from Eudora Welty. 248 pp. Map endpapers.