A countess is found murdered at her château at Orcival, everything at the scene tells a clear story, and Monsieur Lecoq's mentor reads the room in an hour — which is how the reader learns that a scene can be composed like a sentence. Gaboriau built the French detective novel out of the police gazettes; this 1867 book contains the first staged crime scene in fiction, and everything since owes it.
Englisch
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
Caught in the Net
Within an Inch of His Life
The Honor of the Name
The Champdoce Mystery
Other People's Money
The Count's Millions
Señor Lecoq : Novela de misterio
Monsieur Lecoq : Ausgabe in neuer Übersetzung und Rechtschreibung
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime : The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories
The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow
Within an Inch of His Life
In Secret
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study
In Jeopardy
The Champdoce Mystery
The Legacy of Cain
The Secret Passage
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
The Yellow Crayon
Peter Ruff and the Double Four