
Also, his motherless daughter named Ursula begins to act in highly unusual ways. After sometime, the city of Venice starts to look increasingly sinister as the borrowed holy relics of Sam Bell begin to disappear one after the other. Naturally, she gets labeled as the prime suspect in the murder of her husband. They come to know that Lucia’s husband, who was about to leave her soon, has been killed and Lucia has disappeared. Soon, the tranquil getaway of the Kellys turns into an adventure of life and death. Sam Bell seems pretty much convinced that Homer and Marie Kelly are frauds, only later he realizes with surprise that they are not. When they arrive, they find that Sam Bell is reveling in a holy relics’s examination, which has been entrusted to Sam by Saint Marks’s new Procurator named Lucia Costanza. In Venice, the Kellys expected to be received by their host named Sam Bell. She looks forward to click some nice pictures of the book conference with the help of her personal camera.

His wife, Mary Kelly, also comes along with him with eagerness to witness the rare conference. At the start of the story, it depicted that Homer Kelly arrives in the seductive Venice city to take part in a book conference. The important characters described in the book include Homer Kelly, Mary Kelly, Sam Bell, Lucia Costanza, Ursula, etc. Author Langton has set the plot of this novel in Venice, Italy. This book was released in the year 1999 by the Penguin Books publication.
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One of the initial books written and published by Jane Langton in the Homer Kelly series is entitled ‘The Thief of Venice’.

Homer Kelly succeeds in solving the mysteries every time, and while doing so, he helps in catching some very notorious criminals and brutal murderers. Over the course of the series, he is shown encountering numerous mysterious situations, which he tries to overcome with the help of his wit and intelligence. Author Langton has described Homer Kelly as a professor of philosophy at the Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Each of the books of this series feature the lead character in the role of Homer Kelly. This series is comprised of 18 books in total, which were released between the years 19. The Homer Kelly series is a successful mystery series written by the award winning novelist from America named Jane Langton.
