The Hand on the Wall
- Published
- 21 January 2020
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780062338136
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hand on the Wall arrived in January 2020 as the third entry in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series, running 384 pages and following The Vanishing Stair. It closes out the trilogy's central mystery -- the unsolved 1936 Ellingham Academy kidnapping and murder Stevie Bell has spent the series investigating -- which Johnson deliberately withheld the solution to until this book, ahead of Stevie's later, self-contained cold cases in The Box in the Woods and Nine Liars.
Key facts about The Hand on the Wall
The Hand on the Wall is a novel by Maureen Johnson. Readers have had it since 21 January 2020. It runs to 384 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Hand on the Wall. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780062338136 to find the main one.
The Hand on the Wall is book 3 of 6 in the Truly Devious series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Truly Devious (2018). The Velvet Knife is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 29 September 2026.
Additionally, Maureen Johnson writes 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Suite Scarlett and Shades of London, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our young adult, fantasy and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Velvet Knife is the latest published Maureen Johnson book on file, from 29 September 2026.
About Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson is an American young adult author known for novels including 13 Little Blue Envelopes and the Truly Devious mystery series, as well as her contributions to the Shadowhunter short fiction anthologies within Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles universe. See every Maureen Johnson book in order.
Its place in Truly Devious
The Hand on the Wall is book 3 in the Truly Devious series. It follows The Vanishing Stair. It is followed by The Box in the Woods. See the full Truly Devious reading order.
Stevie Bell has one obsession: true crime, and specifically the unsolved 1936 kidnapping and murder case that has haunted Ellingham Academy, an eccentric Vermont boarding school for gifted teenagers, since its founding. When Stevie talks her way into an actual place at Ellingham, she gets more than she bargained for -- within her first term, a fellow student turns up dead in circumstances that echo the decades-old case eerily closely, and Stevie realizes the school's original murderer, known only by the taunting…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062338136