BEg2 ch 18 quick summary, private noses

[Neal Fultz]

* Maxine hears on the radio that Lester Traipse has been found dead
(apparent suicide?)
* But then she spots him going down to the subway. Or was it a lookalike?
* She discusses this with her therapist, Shawn
* But her session runs long, cuts into the session of Conkling Speedwell, a
professional nose
* And they get lunch, and discuss perfumes, freelancing, and nasal forensics
* She and Conkling go to the Deseret to investigate Lester's death in the
below-pool viewing rooms
* Lester was murdered with a ballistic knife (KGB?)
* Conkling gets a scent, takes an air sample, and they head back to his to
compare with his personal collection
   * and he matches it to the 9:30 Club in DC
* Later, Maxine dreams of the crime scene beneath the pool. Lester's corpse
says "Azrael"


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"Sam Valiant, Private Nose" (1961) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJn-5xoSw34

“Every Crime Has Its Peculiar Odor”: Detection, Deodorization, and
Intoxication" -
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/9781479805372-002/pdf

The most recent incarnation of the deodorizing detective is the eponymous
> protagonist of The Sniffer (2013–)—a popular Ukrainian television series
> directed by Artyom Litvinenko and internationally distributed by Amazon
> Prime and Netflix


9:30 club - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club