Monsieur Lecoq

By: Gaboriau, Emile

Gaboriau was the first French novelist to write detective novels. His character Monsieur Lecoq, private detective, first appeared in the novel, The Widow Lerouge. The novel begins: On February 20, 18-, a Sunday that chanced to be Shrove Sunday, about eleven o'clock in the evening, a party of agents of the safety-service left the police-station at the old Barriere d'Italie. The mission of this party was to explore that vast precinct which extends from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1658296958
• ISBN13: 9781658296953
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"