In France, the “literary sensation of the summer” is a novel from 1869 by Three Musketeers author Alexandre Dumas that was recently re-discovered by an “unassuming retired lecturer” ( see the 6 June 2005 MobyLives news digest). As a Reuters wire story by Jon Boyle reports, following a “paper trail of clues worthy of the Da Vinci Code,” Claude Schoop found the book buried in the national archives on the microfiche of a defunct literary journal. “Comfortably installed in the Top 10 best-sellers list,” the book, Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, is expected to sell 100,000 copies. However, the novel was meant to have a sequel that Dumas died before writing. But thanks to a “road map . . . written in Dumas’ own hand” that indicates where Dumas planned to take the plot, Schopp is writing a sequel. Says Schopp, “From the outset, when I saw the work was unfinished, I said to myself Dumas was telling me: ‘I had ghost writers, you will be my last ghost writer, I’ll give you the plan’.”