andie@cvl.UUCP (03/19/86)
I'm trying to find the author/title of a book I read 10 years or more ago. The main characters were a boy and girl, brother and sister, I think, who moved with their family to an old house and had their bedroom in the attic. They start having dreams where everything starts out nice but turns bad. They dream they are field mice (an owl chases them, I think), that they explore a nautilus shell, they explore a house of blocks (which falls on them). In these dreams they often see another child up ahead, who they eventually rescue and who turns out to be a prince (or something like that). Any ideas? Diane Donaldson ...seismo!cvl!andie
oday@hplabsc.UUCP (Vicki O'Day) (03/21/86)
> I'm trying to find the author/title of a book > I read 10 years or more ago.... > > Diane Donaldson This was called _The Diamond in the Window_ and was written by Jane Langton. She wrote several children's books and several adult mysteries. Her mysteries are set in in Thoreau and Emerson country - the detectives are an ex-policeman and ex-librarian who also happen to be scholars specializing in the Transcendentalists. Most of them are well-written and funny. The first one in the series is _The Transcendentalist Murders_. I've forgotten the name of the other one I liked a lot, but it is about a poet accused of a murder that happened on Nantucket during an eclipse of the sun (_Nantucket Noon_?). Another good one is _The Memorial Hall Murders_ (takes place at Harvard where the detectives are team-teaching a literature course). Skip the one about Emily Dickinson - it's not up to the others at all. Vicki O'Day hplabs!oday