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UNINA9910465306203321 |
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Fink Bruce |
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Odor di murderer, scent of a killer : an adventure from inspector canal's New York agency / / Bruce Fink |
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London : , : Karnac Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (219 p.) |
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Collana |
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Perfumes industry - France |
Death threats - France |
Detective and mystery stories |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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"Any resemblance between Inspector Canal and actual persons, living or dead, might well be intentional. All other characters are substantially fictional." |
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The scent of a woman-'odor di femmina'-that elusive je ne sais quoi that brings out the Don Juan in men, gets Inspector Canal all confused in this new mystery.Is it the tentacular JVMQ Group, the cosmetics giant, that is threatening the life of that roguish Frenchman-turned-Manhattanite (loosely based on the infamous French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan), or someone in the chocolate industry?From Wall Street to midtown and from the Colorado Rockies to Grasse, France-the undisputed perfume capital of the world-Canal is swept up into an investigation, and, against his better judgment, ends up acc |
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UNINA9910454926003321 |
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Autore |
Perry George <b. 1771.> |
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Perry's Arcana [[electronic resource]] |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2009 |
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1-282-31096-8 |
9786612310966 |
1-4399-0197-X |
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[A facsimile ed. /] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (577 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Natural history illustration |
Animals |
Plants |
Natural history illustrators - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Originally published in monthy installments, under the title Arcana, or, The museum of natural history. London : Printed by G. Smeeton for James Stratford. 1810-1811. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-colored plates and over 300 text pages describing mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, echinoderms, insects, trilobites and plants, alongside travelogues from far-off lands. It presented the first published illustration of the koala and many new genera and species, but astonishingly was then largely forgotten for nearly two hundred years. Perry's work was deliberat |
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