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The grand complication

This hilarious tale of obsession begins with special collections librarian 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.--From publisher description.

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  • "This hilarious tale of obsession begins with special collections librarian 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.--From publisher description."@en
  • "This hilarious tale of obsession begins with special collections librarian 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.--From publisher description."
  • "Alexander Short, bibliothécaire à New York, rencontre un jour un bibliophile excentrique qui le charge d'une mission : retrouver la pièce manquante d'un coffret retraçant la vie d'un inventeur du XVIIIe siècle, une montre Bréguet ayant appartenu à Marie-Antoinette et volée en 1983 au musée de Jérusalem. Alexander s'investit dans sa mission jusqu'à ce qu'il découvre que le vieil homme le manipule."
  • "Alexander Short, a stylish young reference librarian of arcane interests is hired by the improbably named Henry James Jesson III, a bibliophile collector. Alexander must render whole an incomplete cabinet of curiosities chronicling the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor. But as his investigation heats up, Alexander realizes there are many more voids that need filling."@en
  • "Een jonge New Yorkse bibliotheekmedewerker krijgt van een excentrieke oude man het verzoek hem te helpen bij zijn zoektocht naar het ontbrekende object uit een kastje met curiosa dat ooit toebehoorde aan een mysterieuze achttiende-eeuwse uitvinder."
  • "Confronted by both professional and personal crises, reference librarian Alexander Short gains a new lease on life when he meets Henry James Jesson III, who hires him for some research into an enigmatic eighteenth-century inventor."

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  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "Les complications"
  • "The grand complication : a novel"
  • "Bibliotheek van de misleiding"
  • "מסביב לשעון"
  • "The grand complication"@en
  • "The grand complication"
  • "La gran complicación"@es
  • "Часы зла : роман"
  • "Chasy zla : roman"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "La Gran complicación"
  • "L'orologio di Maria Antonietta"
  • "L'orologio di Maria Antonietta"@it
  • "La gran conspiración"@es
  • "Mi-saviv la-shaʻon"
  • "Die Leidenschaften eines Bibliothekars : Roman"

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