[null and void]

How did he manage to tell anybody anything after he was dead?

It took him a couple days to die of the effects of the fall. He hit his head on the corner of a desk on the way down, and succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage.

He called his friend and reported that his feet had been jerked out from under him as he was standing on a stool reaching for a book of a high shelf.

[laconic]

Wow, an ex-”intelligence agent” who doesn’t get paid zillions to make up stuff about the demon urinating on the bed in a fancy hotel in Moscow.

[Moltke]

...as he was standing on a stool reaching for a book of a high shelf.

Ah, I think I might have an idea what actually happened...