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Other People's Money
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $49.95
ISBN13: 9780809530571
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Jan 10 2025
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.83
Height: 1.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Other People's Money is a masterful exploration of crime, corruption, and societal decay by Émile Gaboriau. Set in the high-stakes world of finance, this gripping tale unravels a web of fraud and greed that ensnares powerful figures. With sharp insight and a timeless message, this classic delves into the consequences of unchecked ambition and moral compromise.
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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