Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the "roman policier" with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriau's huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly, Holmes may have been at least partly based on another of Gaboriau's characters, consulting detective Father Tabaret, whose methods Monsieur Lecoq adopts in the first Lecoq book.
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In the night from the 22nd to the 23rd of June, 1871, towards one o'clock in the morning, the Paris suburd of Sauveterre, the principal and most densely populate suburd of that pretty town, was startled by the furious gallop of a horse on its ill-paved streets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Count Claudieuse, Jacques de Boiscoran, Miss Dionysia, Grandpapa Chandore, Miss Chandore, Vine Street, Marquis de Boiscoran, Misses Lavarande, Marchioness de Boiscoran, Sir Francis Burnett, Suky Wood, Manuel Folgat, Master Jacques, National Street, New-Market Square, Dionysia de Chandore, Miss Adelaide, Misses Mechinet, Red Lamb, Aunt Elizabeth, Baron de Chandore, Insane Ward, Mautrec Street, Miss Martha, Sir Burnett New!
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In the night from the 22nd to the 23rd of June, 1871, towards one o'clock in the morning, the Paris suburd of Sauveterre, the principal and most densely populate suburd of that pretty town, was startled by the furious gallop of a horse on its ill-paved streets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
young advocate, commonwealth attorney, eminent advocate, dear grandpapa, dear client, learned brother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Count Claudieuse, Jacques de Boiscoran, Miss Dionysia, Grandpapa Chandore, Miss Chandore, Vine Street, Marquis de Boiscoran, Misses Lavarande, Marchioness de Boiscoran, Sir Francis Burnett, Suky Wood, Manuel Folgat, Master Jacques, National Street, New-Market Square, Dionysia de Chandore, Miss Adelaide, Misses Mechinet, Red Lamb, Aunt Elizabeth, Baron de Chandore, Insane Ward, Mautrec Street, Miss Martha, Sir Burnett New!
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