Emile Gaboriau 
File No. 113 [EPUB ebook] 

This early work by Emile Gaboriau was originally published in 1867 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. ‘File No. 113’ is one of Gaboriau’s novels of crime and mystery. Emile Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime, France. During his twenties, he became a secretary to Paul Feval – a an author now regarded as one of the fathers of modern crime fiction, whose Jean Diable (1862) is seen as the world’s first modern detective novel.