
The Harper Paperbacks logo and ISBN are printed on the inside front cover, and there is a black and white photo of Tony Hillerman (Photo Credit: Barney Hillerman) on the inside back cover. The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman is a stand-alone novel about a newspaper reporter and an ethical dilemma the protagonist, John Cotton faced concerning whether to report a crime against the people when it could ruin some other worthwhile people and possibly hurt those same people he was trying to help. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal. But the game changes when he finds his best friend's corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S.

There is also a black and white photograph of Tony Hillerman by Barney Hillerman reproduced on the inside of the back cover, with an accompanying biographical note. It includes a chapter from the (then) forthcoming work by Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman at the end of the book. This is the first Harper Paperbacks edition of The Fly on the Wall.
