About the book: 2001 / Before you is a book whose genre truly defies definition. The peculiar “Gothic style” of Edgar Poe and Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffman, based on a plot worthy, perhaps, of Stephen King... In front of you is either an impeccably intellectual detective story, or simply a brilliant literary puzzle, stylized as an intellectual detective story. In front of you is “The Closed Book” " - a new novel by Gilbert Adair…