"I felt like poisoning a monk." That notion, says Umberto Eco, set him to writing the phenomenally successful nove The Name of the Rose. In this Postscript, the reader looks over Eco's shoulder as he conjures up the abbey's labyrinthine library, plots a series of macabre murders, ebates with his sleuth, Wiloliam of Baskerville, and uncovers the tracks that the monks desperately try to cover up again. Translated into English from the Italian by William Weaver.

(Key Words: Mystery Stories, Italy, Umberto Eco, Middle Ages, Franciscans, Murder Mystery, Monks, Postscripts).