Odor Di Murderer, Scent of a Killer: An Adventure from Inspector Canal's New York Agency

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.<br> <br> Is it the tentacular JVMQ Group, the cosmetics giant, that is threatening the life of that roguish Frenchman-turned-Manhattanite (loosely based on the inimitable French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan), or someone in the chocolate industry?<br> <br> 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 accompanying the widow of a dead botanist on a romp through the multi-billion dollar world of aromas. Encountering the bitter complexities of marital projections and vexations, the ever-intriguing Canal discovers that the planet's sweetest scents and confections are strangely interconnected . . .