{"publishers": ["Viking"], "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["3990269"], "librarything": ["383431"]}, "ia_box_id": ["IA142613"], "subject_place": ["Cambridge (Mass.)"], "covers": [402011], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223047978094", "urn:sfpl:31223047525614", "urn:bwbsku:O8-BHX-517"], "ia_loaded_id": ["faceonwall00lang"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3562.A515 F3 1998", "PS3562.A515F3 1998"], "key": "/books/OL343892M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL4778807A"}], "ocaid": "faceonwall00lang", "publish_places": ["New York"], "subjects": ["Kelly, Homer (Fictitious character) -- Fiction", "College teachers -- Fiction", "Cambridge (Mass.) -- Fiction"], "pagination": "291 p. :", "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part27.dat:57558865:757", "marc:CollingswoodLibraryMarcDump10-27-2008/Collingswood.out:19766389:1556", "marc:marc_loc_updates/v36.i48.records.utf8:1256205:764", "ia:faceonwall00lang", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run02.mrc:163973288:1659", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part27.utf8:251355:764", "ia:faceonwall0000lang", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-07-28", "bwb:9780670876747", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:223387129:2237", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_030.bib.mrc:133807337:1384"], "title": "The face on the wall", "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.54"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"A Homer Kelly mystery.\""}, "number_of_pages": 291, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "lccn": ["98002832"], "isbn_10": ["0670876747"], "publish_date": "1998", "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Jane Langton.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL84940W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "oclc_numbers": ["38324203"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Things are finally looking up for Annie Swann, illustrator of children's books and niece of local sleuth Homer Kelly. After years of dead-end romances and broken dreams, one of Annie's favorite wishes is coming true at last.\n\nAll she wanted was a new wing on the east end of her house, complete with a blank wall, thirty-five feet long. Here she could begin her most treasured work yet: a painting rich and complex, thick with fairy stories, honoring her lifelong obsession. And now she has it - an enormous empty canvas upon which she has finally begun her masterpiece.\n\nBut without warning, her luck begins to run dry. There appears on her new wall, over and over again, a mysterious face, no matter how often she paints it out. Is someone trying to send Annie a message? If so, what is it, and who would do such a thing?\n\nAs if the wicked face were a portent of things to come, Annie's dreams soon come crashing down. She finds her tenants' eight-year-old son, Eddy Gast, dead beneath her beautiful wall. Eddy's parents blame Annie for his death and decide to sue her for all she's worth. It becomes a case for Homer Kelly as Annie enlists his aid in a deadly showdown."}, "latest_revision": 17, "revision": 17, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-01T06:48:11.343669"}}