Before us is a mysterious and suspenseful plot that develops around the world of books, around the passion for words, around rare books that could cause disaster due to their content. Clean and bewitching prose that takes the reader into a labyrinthine world, with dark laws, among architectural and literary antiquities. Countless versions of one masterful story were enough to build the legend around Homer Broca, a mysterious writer that no one knows and who doubted ever existed. However, several signs indicate that on the fifth floor of an abandoned building of a former humanities university, among dark and dusty corridors, among papers abandoned from a long time ago and unexpected dangers, lies his secret creation. The narrator is Esteban Miro, a naive student who becomes a detective, who will meet three hostile visitors who will do anything to gain news of the lost novel. Soon the road to the hidden book is filled with corpses. Literary criticism is akin to a religious practice, and the mysteries surrounding Homer Broca will be solved by those who find the lost papers the author left in the building. Reading Pablo de Santis's books is like watching the best of Roman Polanski's Gothic films. But much more than that: De Santis uses the classic adventure novel, nineteenth-century English literature, thrillers, the basics of vampire stories, comic-inspired character characterization, and the fantastic literature of Cortázar and Bioy Cáceres. He presents the reader with irresistible novels time and again, which are read with a smile, cheerful tension, and pure pleasure.