The Grand Complication
Author: Kurzweil, Allen
ISBN: 9780099436850
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Apr 2003
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
A wonderfully entertaining literary crime novel, a cross between The Name of the Rose and The Big Sleep.
Alexander Short is a stylish young reference librarian. With his job in jeopardy and his marriage coming apart, Alexander meets the improbably named Henry James Jesson III, a book-lover who hires the librarian for some after-hours research. His task: to complete a cabinet of curiosities 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-
ISBN: 9780099436850
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Apr 2003
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
A wonderfully entertaining literary crime novel, a cross between The Name of the Rose and The Big Sleep.
Alexander Short is a stylish young reference librarian. With his job in jeopardy and his marriage coming apart, Alexander meets the improbably named Henry James Jesson III, a book-lover who hires the librarian for some after-hours research. His task: to complete a cabinet of curiosities 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-
