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Monsieur Lecoq est un roman policier ecrit par Emile Gaboriau et paru sous forme de feuilleton dans Le Petit Journal du 7 mars 1867 au 3 decembre 1868. Il parait en deux volumes chez l'editeur Dentu en 1869. L'inspecteur Lecoq est le heros de ce roman policier qui succede a L'Affaire Lerouge, au Crime d'Orcival, au Dossier n 113 et aux Esclaves de Paris. La premiere partie du feuilleton est parue dans Le Petit Journal du 7 mars 1868 au 31 juillet puis la seconde partie est publiee dans le quotidien de Moise Polydore Millaud du 7 aout au 3 decembre 1868. Dans son cinquieme roman judiciaire,...

Inspire d'une histoire vraie... Considere comme le pere du roman policier francais, Emile Gaboriau sinspire, comme il le fera dans dautres recits, dun fait divers dramatique qui defraya la chronique en 1865. Il y relate ainsi la trepidante enquete menee autour de lassassinat de Celestine Lerouge, sauvagement egorgee dans le quartier de la place dItalie, a Paris. Linteret de loeuvre presentee dans cette edition est double. Dune part, il sagit dun roman novateur pour son epoque, au point quil influencera notamment Arthur Conan Doyle et son celebre Sherlock Holmes. Dune autre, il est aussi...

Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime. He became a secretary to Paul Feval, and after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866). The book, which was Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced an amateur detective. It also introduced a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels. The character of Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugene Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose own memoirs, Les Vrais Memoires de Vidocq, mixed...

"A daring robbery, committed against one of our most eminent bankers, M. Andre Fauvel, caused great excitement this morning throughout the neighborhood of Rue de Provence. "The thieves, who were as skilful as they were bold, succeeded in making an entrance to the bank, in forcing the lock of a safe that has heretofore been considered impregnable, and in possessing themselves of the enormous sum of three hundred and fifty thousand francs in bank-notes. "The police, immediately informed of the robbery, displayed their accustomed zeal, and their efforts have been crowned with success. Already,...