{"title": "The sleep of reason", "covers": [6706018], "subject_places": ["Great Britain"], "first_publish_date": "1968", "key": "/works/OL3412154W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL560261A"}}], "dewey_number": ["823/.9/12"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Mystery and detective stories", "Fiction", "Fiction in English", "Social conditions", "Social life and customs", "Trials (Murder)", "Lesbians", "10", "Detective and mystery stories", "Fathers and sons", "Murder", "English fiction", "Fiction, psychological"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The time is 1963. The locations are an English provincial town and London. Lewis Eliot agrees to help his old friend, the lawyer George Passant, with a murder trial. Two lesbians are charged with torturing and killing an eight-year-old boy. As the trial progresses, C.P. Snow brings alive all of the characters caught up in the tragedy."}, "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T03:30:15.748834"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-05-12T11:28:44.093982"}}