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Also by Timothy Schaffert:

The Perfume Thief, July 2022
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The Swan Gondola, February 2014
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The Coffins Of Little Hope, April 2011
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The Perfume Thief
Timothy Schaffert

A Novel

Anchor
July 2022
On Sale: July 5, 2022
Featuring: Clementine
368 pages
ISBN: 1984899236
EAN: 9781984899231
Kindle: B08MQLJ99B
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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LGBTQ | Historical

Clementine is a seventy-two year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakech, and finally 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 Nazis, while Clem's people--the outsiders, the artists, and 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, Zoe 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 the book and Clem's expertise to himself. 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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