The grand complication

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"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.)