Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome-the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X and the Holy Inquisition-to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical dybbuk....

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind\"s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man\"s indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder....

\\\"The reader is held captive, and, ultimately, seduced.\\\" San Francisco Chronicle Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied....