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100 1 _aHarris, Arthur T.
245 1 0 _aEau de morgue
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, June 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 5.).
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-05
508 _aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aEau de morgue by Arthur T. Harris is a science-fantasy crime short story written in the mid-20th century. Blending occult intrigue with a detective setup and a clear tribute to Poe, it revolves around mysterious disappearances tied to an exotic cosmetic concoction. Its likely topic is vengeance executed through uncanny chemistry that turns luxury into lethal peril. An ex–Air Force drifter, Jan Mystel, lands a part-time job at Madame Outre’s Greenwich Village perfume shop, funded by the imperious Duchess of Dunscombe. When the Duchess tries to strong-arm Madame into moving uptown, the two women clash; Madame coolly promises a “parting gift.” Soon after, both women vanish. Questioned by Detective Sergeant Kurt Milbach, Jan recounts mailing the Duchess a jar of Madame’s custom bath salts. At the Duchess’s hotel, police find an empty vial of those salts and her wedding ring caught in the tub drain—implying that the gift’s true power was to dissolve its bather “all of me,” a chillingly complete revenge that leaves no body behind. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1956
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aMystery fiction
653 _aGreenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
700 1 _aEmshwiller, Ed,
_d1925-1990
830 0 _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, June 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 5.).
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v05n05_1956-06_Gorgon776/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77869
999 _c118589
_d118589