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.
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Émile Gaboriau (9 November 1832 28 September 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction.
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