The Grand Complication | Allen Kurzweil
Confronted by both professional and personal crises, reference librarian Alexander Short gains a new lease on life when he meets Henry James Jesson III, a collector who shares a number of Alexander's uncoventional interests and who hires him for some after-hours research into an enigmatic eighteenth-century inventor. By the author of A Case of Curiosities. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.