A Novel.
Alexander Short is a stylish young reference librarian of arcane interests. With his job in jeopardy and his marriage coming apart, Alexander meets the improbably named Henry James Jesson III, a bibliophile who hires the librarian for some after-hours research. His task: to render whole an incomplete cabinet of curiosities chronicling the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor.
As the investigation heats up, Alexander realises there are many more secrets lurking in Jesson's cloistered world than those found inside his elegant Manhattan town house.
A delicious compendium of quirky colleagues, erotic pop-ups, deviant passions and miraculous examples of theft, 'The Grand Complication' is a device as grand and complicated as any in Jesson's cabinet of curiosities, a charmingly brilliant and wildly entertaining novel.
