Author:Emile Gaboriau

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Emile Gaboriau
(1832–1873)

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French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction. Best remembered for the stories of his police detective, Monsieur Lecoq, who was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugène François Vidocq.

Works

Monsieur Lecoq (1869, 2 vol.)
- L'Enquête - The Inquiry / Monsieur Lecoq / The Detective's Dilemma (transcription project), C. Scribner's Sons, 1918
- L'Honneur du nom - The Honor of the Name / The Detective's Triumph (1906) IA

Le treizième Hussards (1861) - The 13th Hussars
Mariages d'aventure (1862)
- Monsieur J.-D. de Saint-Roch, ambassadeur matrimonial - The Matrimonial Ambassador: Monsieur J. D. de Saint-Roch
- Promesses de mariage - Promises of Marriage
Les Gens de Bureau (1862) - The Men of the Bureau
L'Affaire Lerouge (1866) - The Widow Lerouge, also published as The Lerouge Affair (1873, translated by Fred. Williams and George A. O. Ernst) IA
Le Crime d'Orcival (1867) - The Mystery of Orcival, ill. Jules Vallée Guérin
Le Dossier n° 113 (1867) - File No. 113 / The Blackmailers
Les Esclaves de Paris (1868, 2 vol.) - Slaves of Paris
- Le Chantage - Caught in the Net
- Le Secret de la Maison de Champdoce - The Champdoce Mystery
Monsieur Lecoq (1869, 2 vol.)
- L'Enquête - The Inquiry / Monsieur Lecoq / The Detective's Dilemma
- L'Honneur du nom - The Honor of the Name / The Detective's Triumph
La Vie infernale (1870, 2 vol.) - The Count's Millions
- Pascal et Marguerite - The Count's Millions
- Lia d'Argeles - Baron Trigault's Vengeance
La Clique dorée (1871) - The Clique of Gold / The Gilded Clique
La Dégringolade (1872) - Catastrophe / The Downward Path
La Corde au cou (1873) - Rope Around His Neck / In Peril of His Life / In Deadly Peril
L'Argent des autres (1874) - Other People's Money / A Great Robbery
Le Petit Vieux des Batignolles (1876) - The Little Old Man of Batignolles
Le Capitaine Coutanceau (1878) - Captain Coutanceau
Une Disparition (1876) - A Disappearance / Missing! / 1000 Francs Reward
Maudite maison (1876) - The Unfortunate House
Casta vixit (1876) - Love, the Conqueror
Amours d'une empoisonneuse (1881) - Intrigues of a Poisoner / An Adventuress of France / The Marquise De Brinvilliers

Individual short stories

"The Accursed House" in Short Stories Vol 12, Feb 1893. translated by E. C. Waggener

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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