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      The Face on the Wall

      by Jane Langton
      Published
      Jun 1998
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      Amateur Sleuth Amateur Sleuth
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      304
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      A Homer Kelly Mystery Book 13

      About This Book

      Life has not always been fair to Annie Swann. A bad marriage sullied her youth, but since her divorce she has made enough money illustrating children's books to add a wing to her house. The new addition's focal point will be a thirty-five-foot blank wall, where Annie plans an elaborate mural of the fairy tale characters who pay her bills. But as she paints, mysterious markings appear on the mural: first splotches, then a woman's face, ringed with blond hair and covered in blood. It seems to point to the disappearance of Pearl Small, a Harvard student who took classes from Annie's aunt Mary. As Mary and her husband, professor and ex-cop Homer Kelly, look for Pearl, Annie continues painting, unaware that with each brushstroke, she marks her wall with another layer of evil.

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      Book 13
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      Jun 1999 Penguin ISBN13 9780140281576 ISBN10 0140281576
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      First Edition Jun 1998 Viking ISBN13 9780670876747 ISBN10 0670876747
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      May 1999 Thomas T. Beeler ISBN13 9781574902051 ISBN10 1574902059
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