New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A slim complementary volume to Eco's masterpiece, in which "the reader looks over Eco's shoulder as he conjures up the abbey's labyrinthine library, plots a series of macabre murders, debates with his sleuth, William of Baskerville, uncovers tracks that the monks desperately try to cover up again" - and provides an assessment of the place of the historical novel in the modern world. Illustrated. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. 81 pp plus 1 pp of notes. ISBN: 0-15173156X.