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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465306203321

Autore

Fink Bruce

Titolo

Odor di murderer, scent of a killer : an adventure from inspector canal's New York agency / / Bruce Fink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Karnac Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78241-224-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

The Karnac Library

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Perfumes industry - France

Death threats - France

Detective and mystery stories

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Any resemblance between Inspector Canal and actual persons, living or dead, might well be intentional. All other characters are substantially fictional."

Nota di contenuto

COVER;  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

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