Alexander Short is a stylish young reference librarian. With his job injeopardy and his marriage coming apart Alexander meets the improbably namedHenry James Je... » 

Alexander Short is a stylish young reference librarian. With his job injeopardy and his marriage coming apart Alexander meets the improbably namedHenry James Jesson III a booklover who hires the librarian for some afterhours research. His task to complete a cabinet of curiosities chronicling thelife of a mysterious eighteenthcentury inventor. As the investigation heatsup Alexander realizes there are many more secrets lurking in Jessonscloistered world than those found inside his elegant Manhattan town house... «