The Perfume ThiefThe Perfume Thief
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Book, 2020
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Current format, Book, 2020, 1st ed, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsClementine is a 72-year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the über-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakesh, and finally to the bordellos of Paris, where she settles down in 1930 and opens a shop bottling her favorite extracts for the ladies of the cabarets. Now it's 1941, and Clem's favorite haunt, Madame Boulette's, is crawling with Nazi's while Clem's people--the outsiders, the artists, the hustlers who used to call it home--are disappearing. Clem's first instinct is to go to ground: it's a frigid Paris winter, and she's too old to put up a fight. But when the cabaret's prize songbird, Zoé St. Angel, recruits Clem to steal the recipe book of a now-missing famous Parisian perfumer, she can't say no. Her mark is Oskar Voss, a Francophile Nazi bureaucrat, who wants to use the book and Clem's chemical expertise in a plot of his own. Hoping to buy the time and trust she needs to pull off her scheme, Clem settles on a novel strategy: telling Voss the truth about the life and loves she came to Paris to escape.
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