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Wildside Press Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau
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. Gaboriaus huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly Holmes may have been at least partly based on another of Gaboriaus characters consulting detective Father Tabaret whose methods Monsieur Lecoq adopts in the first Lecoq book.show more