L’Escaliers de la Mort. What is this, the French translation of my book? I don’t remember getting it or even any French publisher saying they were going to publish it.” He looks for the author’s name on the cover and inside and on the back, but there is none. “Who wrote this? It couldn’t be by a phantom. Anyway, this all you could find?” “All. My nightstand’s now bare.” “But it isn’t my novel and I don’t understand French that well and it’d be