The cover page is adapted from Wet Night, Gramercy Park (After Rain; Nocturne), a painting completed in 1907 by Ernest Lawson. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Lawsonwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Perfume of Eros
Chapitres (20)
- The Facts in the Case: I: A Man of Fashion 0:00
- II: The Pocket Venus 13:44
- III: The Ex-First Lady 29:54
- IV: Enchantment 46:41
- V: Marie Changes Her Name 56:47
- VI: The Yellow Fay 1:13:15
- VII: Sweet-and-Twenty 1:23:34
- VIII: Two in a Turret 1:34:41
- IX: Fanny Changes Her Clothes 1:45:44
- X: A Victim 2:01:46
- The General Sessions: I: Disenchantment 2:11:01
- II: The Mote in the Eye 2:25:23
- III: The Gates of Life 2:42:11
- IV: The Return of the Yellow Fay 2:57:46
- V: Exit Fanny 3:13:25
- VI: What the Papers Said 3:25:32
- VII: Held Without Bail 3:39:23
- VIII: The Defendant to the Bar 3:58:45
- IX: The Twelfth Juror 4:13:46
- X: The Verdict 4:37:22
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Fanny Price has long hoped that Royal Loftus, the heir to the wealthy Loftus family, would court her, but he refuses to commit himself. Fanny is ideal, he thinks, but too ambitious, “with a perfect mania for matrimony.” Instead, he turns his attention to the far less affluent Marie Durand, sweeping her off her feet and proposing to her without ever making good on his promise.
Fanny, rather disappointed by this turn of events, marries Arthur Annandale on a whim; his engagement to her friend Sylvia Waldron has just been broken off, and the events that led to it are hazy in his mind. These two intertwined love triangles are thrown into turmoil when, one morning, a body is found on a bench in Gramercy Park.
The Perfume of Eros caused a stir following the high-profile murder of famed architect Stanford White in 1906; according to the San Francisco News Letter, there were remarkable similarities between the book and actual events. Saltus hastened to point out in a letter to the editor that the publication of The Perfume of Eros preceded White’s murder by a year.
Saltus would later take the central plot of The Perfume of Eros, along with some of his short stories, and rework them into a novel titled The Paliser Case. Standard Ebooks hosts this book instead of its very similar reworking.