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Monsieur Lecoq: File No. 113
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781592242979
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Oct 11 2024
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.76
Language: English
This detective novel follows the brilliant and resourceful Monsieur Lecoq, an early precursor to Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates a mysterious crime. When a seemingly simple case of murder turns into a complex web of intrigue involving hidden identities and secret pasts, Lecoq must use his keen intellect and investigative skills to unravel the truth. Set in 19th-century France, the novel explores themes of justice, crime, and the nature of guilt.
Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the roman policier with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriau's huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly, Holmes may have been at least partly based on another of Gaboriau's characters, consulting detective Father Tabaret, whose methods Monsieur Lecoq adopts in the first Lecoq book.
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