| Monsieur Lecoq Contributor(s): Gaboriau, Émile (Author) |
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ISBN: 1364277808 ISBN-13: 9781364277802 Publisher: Blurb OUR PRICE: $28.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6" W x 9" (0.94 lbs) 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: mile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 - September 28, 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction. His first detective novel, Monsieur Lecoq 1869, which featured an amateur detective and a young police officer (Monsieur Lecoq), was a success and the Lecoq was the hero in Gaboriau's 3 later detective novels. The character of Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eug ne Fran ois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose own memoirs, Les Vrais M moires de Vidocq, mixed fiction and fact. It may also have been influenced by the villainous Monsieur Lecoq, one of the main protagonists of F val's Les Habits Noirs book series. Gaboriau was a pioneer and a great success in his time until Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes which diverted global attention from his Monsieur Lecoq. The story was produced on the stage in 1872. A long series of novels dealing with the annals of the police court followed, and proved very popular. Gaboriau died in Paris of pulmonary apoplexy. |
