In this cleverly written French novel, a librarian in the Brittany region of France has amassed a vast collection of rejected manuscripts. On a visit to the unusual library, aspiring editor Delphine Despero discovers a masterpiece entitled The Last Hours of a Love Affair among the "literary orphans"…yet a search for the author leads to a deceased pizzeria owner who never read a book in his life. Revolving around Delphine's successful launch of the novel, The Mystery of Henri Pick is as much the story of good literature changing lives as it is a mystery surrounding the book's author.