# The Grand Complication

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- Authors: [Allen Kurzweil](https://www.bookquiver.com/allen-kurzweil)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2003-02-06

## Description

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-

## Editions

### The Grand Complication

- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9943-685-0
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2003-02-06
- Language: en_GB