Chapter Thirty-OneNow that’s more like it, Dufort said to himself when the next lab report came in. The chemist had tested all of the jars of face cream Perrault had brought in, including the commercial ones that appeared to be either unopened or barely used. The unmarked jar had indeed tested clear of any poisons (though in Dufort’s opinion, cosmetics and lotions were usually loaded with all kinds of less-than-salubrious chemicals, but at least they were legal and not immediately lethal). One of the barely used jars was Chanel, a monstrously expensive beauty product in a small glass jar: the Chanel cream had been replaced with dimethyl sulfoxide, which had been loaded with cyanide. The chemist pointed out that dimethyl sulfoxide was readily available to anyone and would allow for very eff
