About the book: 1988 / Julien Courtois owed a loan shark a large sum of money. The hero sees murder as his only way out. At the moment when Julien’s secretary is sitting in the reception room, he climbs out the window and, at the risk of his life, moves into the moneylender’s office... The novel was based on the film “Elevator to the Scaffold” directed by Louis Malle, a representative of the “new wave” in French cinema. Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Pujoli, Lino Ventura.