Emile Gaboriau

Monsieur Lecoq Illustrated Emile Gaboriau

Classic detective story and fourth book in the Monsieur Lecoq series. Monsieur Lecoq is a novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Émile Gaboriau, whom André Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction".[1] The novel depicts the first case of Monsieur Lecoq, an energetic young policeman who appears in other novels by Gaboriau.