THE WIDOW LEROUGE THE LEROUGE CASE

Download or read book THE WIDOW LEROUGE THE LEROUGE CASE written by EMILE GABORIAU and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many to be the first detective novel, The Lerouge Case (aka The Widow Lerouge) introduces Monsieur Lecoq (later Inspector Lecoq), a former “habitual criminal” who becomes a police officer. Émile Gaboriau based Lecoq at least in part on an actual criminal-turned-police-officer, Eugène Vidocq, who went on to be the first director of the Sûreté. In this first book, Lecoq plays a relatively small part, the bulk of the mystery solving being done by Lecoq’s mentor Tabaret, an amateur detective.