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The scent of murder is in the air at the great Pour Amour perfume contest, and the incomparable Nero Wolfe is intent on sniffing out the killer. The foul deed is committed during the contest’s final round. Only five riddles separate the contestants from the million-dollar cash prize when someone finds the sweet smell of success too intoxicating to leave to chance. Now the contest creator is dead and the answers stolen from his wallet, and it’s...
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"First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond ... then came the "suicide" that was murder ... the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat ... a suspicious death in a locked gun room ... a million dollar bond robbery ... the curse of a pharaoh's tomb ... a jewel robbery by the sea ... the abduction of a prime minister ... the disappearance of a banker ... a phone call from a dying man ... and, finally, the mystery of the missing will. What...
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Murder lurks in the wings of the sprawling Fifth Avenue penthouse of multimillionaire Otis Jarrell, who has just retained Nero Wolfe on a case of the utmost confidentiality. But even the master detective cannot prevent tragedy when it inevitably arrives wielding Jarrell's missing revolver. Soon a second victim dies, and Wolfe must piece together the truth behind Jarrell's scandalously ill-behaved family.
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