Who doesn't love a gerund? And we all loved Baxter. His working life was spent ghosting books for famous people who couldn't write to save theirs, who had the nerve but not the talent or the time to set things down in words. I'm not going to bore you with a list of his (often uncredited) successes. They meant little more to him than they'd mean to you and I've never read a single one, but Baxter was fun. We were saddened and shocked when he suddenly went to join the host of ghost writers in the sky, but were ...
