title: The Escher Twist: A Homer Kelly Mystery
author:  Jane Langton 
description: Jane Langton is the author of fifteen other Homer Kelly mysteries, and a well-known children's author.
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  _**Marge picked up**_ the printout and frowned. Sally’s description and
  footprints hadn’t matched anything stored in the mainframe’s data banks.
  Though it wasn’t unusual for the computer to turn up a blank, because the kid
  was so young, she’d hoped for a break.
  
  
  
  
  
  She looked up Barry Delferno’s number. The first time she’d met the bounty
  hunter, she’d expected someone fat and swarthy with a bucket’s worth of grease
  plastered on his hair. Instead, she found a tall, sandy-haired muscle man with
  dancing eyes. He’d asked her out and she’d accepted, only to find out a week
  later that he was married.
  
  
  
  
  
  Bounty hunters. No matter what they looked like, they were all sleazeballs.
  
  
  
  
  
  She punched Delferno’s number into the phone, and a moment later a deep voice
  resonated inside the earpiece.
  
  
  
  
  
  “It’s Marge Dunn, Barry,” she said.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Detective Dunn,” Delferno crooned. “How’s the LAPD’s finest?”
  
  
  