The Grand Complication: A Novel

The Grand Complication: A Novel by Kurzweil, Allen. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780786885183.

Critically acclaimed for his international bestseller, A Case of Curiosities, Allen Kurzweil has been called one of todays most gifted new voices in fiction. Now he returns with The Grand Complication -- a modern-day tale of literary intrigue, deviant passions, and delicious secrets. Behind the majestic walls of a Manhattan town house, a stylish young reference librarian of arcane interests unravels an 18th-century mystery -- who stole Marie Antoinettes watch The book is a grand and complicated "timepiece," told with a devilish sense of fun.