Well known novel from the French writer, novelist, and journalist, considered a pioneer of modern detective fiction. The Lerouge Case was his first detective novel, introducing an amateur detective and a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels.
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ON Thursday, the 6th of March, 1862, two days after Shrove Tuesday, five women belonging to the village of La Jonchere presented themselves at the police station at Bougival. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interrupted the magistrate, blue brougham, tall clerk, investigating magistrate, lavender kid gloves, old nobleman, old detective, young barrister Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madame Gerdy, Count de Commarin, Noel Gerdy, Palais de Justice, Albert de Commarin, Madame Juliette, Shrove Tuesday, Mademoiselle Claire, Rue de Provence, Claudine Lerouge, Rheteau de Commarin, Rue de Jerusalem, Viscount Albert, Legion of Honour, Mademoiselle Goello New!
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ON Thursday, the 6th of March, 1862, two days after Shrove Tuesday, five women belonging to the village of La Jonchere presented themselves at the police station at Bougival. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interrupted the magistrate, blue brougham, tall clerk, investigating magistrate, lavender kid gloves, old nobleman, old detective, young barrister Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madame Gerdy, Count de Commarin, Noel Gerdy, Palais de Justice, Albert de Commarin, Madame Juliette, Shrove Tuesday, Mademoiselle Claire, Rue de Provence, Claudine Lerouge, Rheteau de Commarin, Rue de Jerusalem, Viscount Albert, Legion of Honour, Mademoiselle Goello New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Surprise Me!
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- The Widow Lerouge by Emile Gaboriau on page 1
- The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Martin Priestman on page 62, page 63, and page 75
- Conan Doyle, Detective: The True Crimes Investigated by the Creator of Sherlock Holmes by Peter Costello on page 28, and page 29
- The Real World of Sherlock Holmes: The True Crimes Investigated by Arthur Conan Doyle by Peter Costello on page 20
- My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective by Michael Kurland in Front Matter
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