The grand complication
By: Allen Kurzweil.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Theia
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Librarians -- Fiction.; Art thefts -- Fiction.; Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.; Bibliomania -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The account begins with Alexander's job in jeopardy and his marriage destined for the Discard shelf. Enter the improbably named Henry James Jesson III, a bibliophile who hires the librarian for some after-hours research. The task: to render whole an incomplete cabinet of wonders chronicling the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor.

As the investigation heats up, Alexander realizes there are many more secrets lurking in Jesson's cloistered world than those found inside his elegant Manhattan town house. With a notebook tethered to his jacket, Alexander plunges headlong into the search, only to discover that the void in the cabinet is rivaled by an emptiness in his heart."--BOOK JACKET.