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A stylish, sexy page-turner set in Paris on the eve of World War II, where Clementine, a queer American ex-pat and notorious thief, is drawn out of retirement and into one last scam when the Nazis invade. "A hint of Moulin Rouge , a whiff of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale , a little spritz of Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief ... The Perfume Thief is a pulse-pounding thriller and a sensuous experience you’ll want to savor."— Oprah Daily "[A] superb novel ... This is historical fiction at its finest, vivid and beautifully rendered." —Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Sea of Tranquility 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 d

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Author

Timothy Schaffert

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385545754

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (296 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14