MrArkadian Author:Orson Welles "Call whoever created this novel the author, or call him... the translator, as the roles most likely are all but interchangeable here," Robert Polito writes in his new preface. The book you hold in your hands, always presented as Orson Welles's work, is, in fact, something much more complicated: an uncredited English translation of a French text... more » adapted and translated from Welles's writing by a friend and ghostwriter. In short, this hard-boiled thriller, in the tradition of James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett, is just one more piece of the larger puzzle that is Mr. Arkadian.« less