Pale Fire, Paperback/Vladimir Nabokov

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire , is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous?