Born in 1962, Fabio Stassi is the Director of the Library for Oriental Studies at La Sapienza University in Rome. He has written fiction, non-fiction, essays, and short stories, and has won a number of important prizes. His work has been translated into 19 languages. This short story is an introduction to the character of Vince Corso, bibliotherapist and detective. Stassi has written three Vince Corso novels.