Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very unusual first published novel, written in the form of a literary biography, the story of a successful novelist whose career comes to an end when he is convicted of a grisly crime. In addition to the biographer's fusty, yet vivid, account, this includes a second account by the novelist himself, written as a parody of a detective story. Chronology. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-916583-392.