{"covers": [402011, 100450], "key": "/works/OL84940W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL4778807A"}}], "title": "The face on the wall", "subject_places": ["Cambridge (Mass.)", "Concord (Mass.)"], "subjects": ["College teachers", "Fiction", "Homer Kelly (Fictitious character)", "Large type books", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Massachusetts, fiction", "Kelly, homer (fictitious character), fiction", "Cambridge (mass.), fiction", "College teachers, fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "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": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T08:18:55.483183"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-14T00:21:38.538420"}}