Essential Novelists - Émile Gaboriau
Essential Novelists - Émile Gaboriau

Author: Émile Gaboriau

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-05-09

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13: 3968589378

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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Émile Gaboriau wich are The Widow Lerouge and Monsieur Lecoq. The book, which was Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced an amateur detective. It also introduced a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels. The character of Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugène François Vidocq. It may also have been influenced by the villainous Monsieur Lecoq, one of the main protagonists of Féval's Les Habits Noirs book series. Novels selected for this book: - The Widow Lerouge - Monsieur Lecoq This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - Émile Gaboriau
Essential Novelists - Émile Gaboriau

Author: August Nemo

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2019-07-10

Total Pages: 831

ISBN-13: 857777354X

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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Émile Gaboriau wich are The Widow Lerouge and Monsieur Lecoq. The book, which was Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced an amateur detective. It also introduced a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels. The character of Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugène François Vidocq. It may also have been influenced by the villainous Monsieur Lecoq, one of the main protagonists of Féval's Les Habits Noirs book series. Novels selected for this book: - The Widow Lerouge - Monsieur Lecoq This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

The Notting Hill Mystery
The Notting Hill Mystery

Author: Charles Felix

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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Source documents compiled by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson are used to build a case against Baron "R___", who is suspected of murdering his wife. The baron's wife died from drinking a bottle of acid, apparently while sleepwalking in her husband's private laboratory. Henderson's suspicions are raised when he learns that the baron recently had purchased five life insurance policies for his wife. As Henderson investigates the case, he discovers not one but three murders. Although the baron's guilt is clear to the reader even from the outset, how he did it remains a mystery. Eventually this is revealed, but how to catch him becomes the final challenge; he seems to have committed the perfect crime.

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Author: Fergus Hume

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2016-01-18

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1473378974

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This early work by Fergus Hume was originally published in 1886 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab' is a tricky tale set in Australia and is Hume's most famous crime novel. Fergusson Wright Hume was born on 8th July 1859 in England, the second son of Dr. James Hume. The family migrated to New Zealand where Fergus was enrolled at Otago Boys' High School, and later continued his legal and literary studies at the University of Otago. Hume returned to England in 1888 where he resided in London for a few years until moving to the Essex countryside. There he published over 100 novels, mainly in the mystery fiction genre, though none had the success of his début work.

Caught in the Net
Caught in the Net

Author: Émile Gaboriau

Publisher: Essential Library

Published: 2001-10

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1401017843

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"Caught in the Net" features a gang of thieves trapped in a web of deceit. This heirloom edition is part of an entertaining collection of hard-to-find mystery novels. Visit www.EssentialLibrary.com to see all the titles in this series.

The Mystery of Orcival Annotated
The Mystery of Orcival Annotated

Author: Émile Gaboriau

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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About BookThe Mystery of Orcival is a novel by Émile Gaboriau, published in 1867, and part of the Monsieur Lecoq series. Similar to Sherlock Holmes, Lecoq is a genius detective; arrogant, proud, a master of disguise, and known for deducing things that others cannot see. The character was apparently based on Eugène François Vidocq, a police officer who used to be a thief.

Other People's Money
Other People's Money

Author: Emile Gaboriau

Publisher: Essential Library

Published: 2001-08

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1401017878

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"Other People's Money" examines what happens when money and murder meet. High finance is the backdrop to this atmospheric detective novel set in France. Can you solve the crime before time runs out? This heirloom edition is part of an entertaining collection of hard-to-find mystery novels. Visit www.EssentialLibrary.com to see all the titles in this series.

Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880
Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880

Author: Kate Watson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0786491175

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Arthur Conan Doyle has long been considered the greatest writer of crime fiction, and the gender bias of the genre has foregrounded William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and Fergus Hume. But earlier and significant contributions were being made by women in Britain, the United States and Australia between 1860 and 1880, a period that was central to the development of the genre. This work focuses on women writers of this genre and these years, including Catherine Crowe, Caroline Clive, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry (Ellen) Wood, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Louisa May Alcott, Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, Anna Katharine Green, Celeste de Chabrillan, "Oline Keese" (Caroline Woolmer Leakey), Eliza Winstanley, Ellen Davitt, and Mary Helena Fortune--innovators who set a high standard for women writers to follow.