The Clique of Gold
by Émile Gaboriau
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Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the "roman policier" with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriau's huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly, Holmes may have been at least show more partly based on another of Gaboriau's characters, consulting detective Father Tabaret, whose methods Monsieur Lecoq adopts in the first Lecoq book. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- La Clique dorée
- Alternate titles
- The Gilded Clique
- Original publication date
- 1871
- First words
- There is not in all Paris a house better kept or more inviting-looking than No. 23 in Grange Street.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)These people, however, take good care to keep at considerable distance from Daniel and his faithful Lefloch.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Mystery, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
- LCC
- PZ3 .G113 .C — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- English, French, Polish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
- ASINs
- 10
