THE BOOK OF THE DEAD - FIRST HARD COVER . NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good / Good. Augustus Maltravers is stranded at the home of the wealthy bibliophile Charles Carrington. Carrington promises to show Maltravers his greatest literary treasure, an unpublished Sherlock Holmes story, but is murdered by his dinner guest. Who is the murderer and how does the Holmes manuscript enter the plot?