Emile Gaboriau - Böcker

Monsieur Lecoq of the French Surete is called to investigate a Bank Robbery in one of the world's first detective novels, widely credited as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.A sensational bank robbery of 350,000 francs is the talk of Paris, wit...

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Monsieur Lecoq of the French Surete is called to investigate a Bank Robbery in one of the world's first detective novels, widely credited as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.A sensational bank robbery of 350,000 francs is the talk of Paris, wit...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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A grisly triple murder occurs in a down-and-out quarter of Paris, and the petty criminal apprehended at the scene of the crime is considered clearly guilty—except by young Monsieur Lecoq. The brilliant but inexperienced young detective digs ...

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Jean Bertaud and his son well known at Orcival as living by poaching and marauding rose at three o?clock in the morning just at daybreak to go fishing.""

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A Sequel to "The Count's Millions" translated from the French.

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On the first Sunday in the month of August 1815 at ten o'clock precisely-as on every Sunday morning-the sacristan of the parish church at Sairmeuse sounded the three strokes of the bell which warn the faithful that the priest is ascending the step...

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Short excerpt: To venture there at night was considered so dangerous that the soldiers from the outlying forts who came in to Paris with permission to go to the theatre were ordered to halt at the barriere and not to pass through the perilous dist...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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Emile Gaboriau's methodical detective Monsieur Lecoq ("e;Mr. Rooster"e;) of the Surete was inspired by the real-life thief turned police officer Eugene Francois Vidocq.Set primarily in a series of small towns on the Seine that are now subu...

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"e;Can it be true,"e; she continued, "e;that scoundrels exist in our country who are viler than the most cowardly murderers-men who trade in the shameful secrets that they have learned, and batten upon the money they earn by their odio...

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