[Machine Translation] E.A. Smith is a bionic E.A. Smith, equipped with the memories and emotions of the mystery writer E.A. Smith before his death. He is a "collector" who lives in a library and lives in the stacks. Smith has been sent to the library of a seaside village through the interlibrary loan system. There he is loaned out to a young girl, Chandra, who lives with her mother and asks him to find her father, who disappeared many years ago. Her father, a professor of anatomy, left behind a leather-bound book with a map of a "corpse island" with an extremely cold ice cave on it.... Meanwhile, Smith discovers the corpse of an old "version" of himself in the library! This science fiction mystery is the sequel to "The Detective in the Library," the unfinished last work of the master storyteller Wolfe.