The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Short summary

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One day a monk named Wilhelm and his escort, whose name was Adson, are forced to clarify the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of the monastic priest Adelm of Otrantz.

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Representatives of the religious estate — Wilhelm and Adson — seek to investigate all the details of the mysterious death of the priest Adelm.

The first thing the protagonists go to the library, which was the last place of the deceased in our world. The abbot of the monastery, named Abbon, denies the visiting guests access to the book repository, although according to one version, Adelm fell out of the library window. Unwilling to give up so easily, Wilhelm and Adson still make it to the coveted location at night, but encounter many obstacles that force them to leave the location.

The next night, Adson goes to the book depository alone. Later, he goes to the kitchen, where he meets a girl, with whom he later becomes intimate. Soon the monastery is taken over by the Inquisitors, led by Bernard Gee, as the protagonists have failed to find Adelm’s killer. After a while, the men part ways for good.