This image represents a famous book. Any ideas?

Fans of literature, with a keen eye for photography and geography, will love the contest set up over at Literary Kicks. The website has started a guessing game, and is betting you can’t guess the famous literary work represented in the photograph above.

Taken in 1924, the photo shows the site of a famous literary death. All you have to do is guess what novel this photograph is a snapshot of, and you’ll win Literary Kicks’ first Mystery Spot game.

Of course, what would a guessing game be without a few hints? As LitKicks tells us, “you have definitely read this novel. It’s one of the most widely loved novels of all time. A person is killed, during one of the novel’s climactic scenes, by the forked road near the top right of the photo. The vast expanse in the photo’s center, which appears to be a work of geometric modern art, provides one of the novel’s central metaphors.”

So what do you think? We have a few ideas, but we don’t want to give anything away. Leave your guesses in the comments section below, or at the LitKicks page, and be sure to stick with us when the answer is revealed.

*UPDATE*

And the answer is…

The Great Gatsby. The photo seen above is of The Valley of Ashes, where towards the end of the classic book Daisy Buchanan strikes and kills another character with her car.

So did you get it right? What was your guess? To read more about the photograph’s story, check out the LitKicks page.