A wardrobe or armoire is a standing closet used for storing clothes. An armoire desk is a writing-table built within a large cabinet, usually high. The "Secretaire an armoire" was a vertical piece of furniture which resembled an armoire. The Office Queen has a modern descendant called the armoire desk. The typical armoire desk provides space for a keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer and speakers. Small or home offices are the usual habitat of the modern armoire desk. The closest ancestor, in form, of the armoire desk, is the Moore desk. Another eavesdropping device inside a rectangular piece of wood was hidden in the same armoire. Kassem offers him an armoire he has in storage as a replacement. There he buys an armoire and returns home just as it is being delivered. Minnie screams when she finds Cornelius hiding in an armoire. Minnie screams when she finds Cornelius hiding in the armoire. While she is away, two men intimidate Kramer and steal the armoire. The novel closes with him slowly following the armoire up the steps into Palazzo Zuccari. En route, Elaine notices a man on the sidewalk with an armoire for sale.