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An edition of The face on the wall (1998)

The face on the wall

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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.

All 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.

But 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?

As 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.

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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
291

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Face on the Wall
2012, MysteriousPress.com
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Face on the Wall
2012, MysteriousPress.com
in English
Cover of: The Face on the Wall
The Face on the Wall
June 1, 1999, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: The face on the wall
The face on the wall: a Homer Kelly mystery
1999, Beeler Large Print
in English
Cover of: The face on the wall
The face on the wall
1998, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The face on the wall
The face on the wall
1998, Viking
in English

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Edition Notes

"A Homer Kelly mystery."

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3562.A515 F3 1998, PS3562.A515F3 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
291 p. :
Number of pages
291

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL343892M
Internet Archive
faceonwall00lang
ISBN 10
0670876747
LCCN
98002832
OCLC/WorldCat
38324203
Library Thing
383431
Goodreads
3990269

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