Umfang:
359 S. : 25 cm.
Ausgabe:
1. ed.
ISBN:
0-7868-6603-9
Inhalt:
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.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
Schlagwort(e):
Fiktionale Darstellung
;
Detective and mystery stories
;
Humorous stories
;
Humorous fiction
;
Mystery fiction
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
;
Detective and mystery stories
;
Humorous stories
;
Humorous fiction
;
Mystery fiction