Title: The grand complication
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.
Subjects: Librarians, Fiction, Bibliomania, Art thefts, Collectors and collecting, New York (N.Y.)-Fiction, Art thefts-Fiction, Librarians-Fiction, Collectiors and collecting-Fiction, Bibliomania-Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: New York (N.Y.)