Caught in the Net: A Paris Novel of Blackmail
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A young man of good family is told he is not his father's son but a foundling, and that a document proving otherwise can be bought — for a price that ruins everyone who touches it. Gaboriau was a cavalry trooper and a lawyer's clerk before he invented Monsieur Lecoq and, with him, the detective novel in France; Conan Doyle read him carefully and then had Holmes sneer at Lecoq, which is its own kind of tribute. Fifty-seven plates after Daumier and Caillebotte, from lawyers in court to shipwrecks and the execution of Marshal Ney, give this Paris of blackmail and ruined fortunes its visual weather.
A young man of good family is told he is not his father's son but a foundling, and that a document proving otherwise can be bought — for a price that ruins everyone who touches it. Gaboriau was a cavalry trooper and a lawyer's clerk before he invented Monsieur Lecoq and, with him, the detective n...
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Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873) was a French journalist and novelist who worked in Paris. He is recognized as an early master of the detective novel, creating the investigator Monsieur Lecoq, who appears in such works as The Lerouge Case and File No. 113.
Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873) was a French journalist and novelist who worked in Paris. He is recognized as an early master of the detective novel, creating the investigator Monsieur Lecoq, who appears in such works as The Lerouge Case and File No. 113.
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