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    Émile Gaboriau (9 November 1832 – 28 September 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction. Gaboriau was born in...
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    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...
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  • Monsieur Lecoq is the creation of Émile Gaboriau, a 19th-century French writer and journalist. Monsieur Lecoq is a fictional detective employed by the...
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    of the French detective novel Monsieur Lecoq, published in 1868 by Émile Gaboriau, uses the term Black Maria when referring to a police van. The term...
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    noteworthy as the first full-length work of American crime fiction. Émile Gaboriau was a pioneer of the detective fiction genre in France. In Monsieur...
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  • Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873), pioneer of modern detective fiction Jules Vallès (1832-1885) Eugène Le Roy (1836–1907) Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) Émile Zola...
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    Funnel", by Alexandre Dumas, père, in The Marquise de Brinvilliers and by Émile Gaboriau in Intrigues of a Poisoner. A form of water cure known as the Swedish...
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  • Dupin stories mark the start of the modern detective fiction genre. Émile Gaboriau and Arthur Conan Doyle were perhaps also influenced by Zadig.  Italian...
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    Linda Gaboriau (née Johnson) is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 125 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including...
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    Devil's Marchioness by William Fifield, Intrigues of a Poisoner by Émile Gaboriau, and The Marchioness of Brinvilliers: The Poisoner of the Seventeenth...
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    d'Orcival) is an 1867 detective novel by the 19th century French writer Émile Gaboriau, in his Monsieur Lecoq series. The book was first published in French...
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    weekly newspaper Journal des débats; and he was the inspiration of Émile Gaboriau for Monsieur Lecoq, one of the first scientific and methodical investigators...
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  • magazine Jean Diable, named after his eponymous Habits Noirs novel, and Émile Gaboriau, future creator of the police detective Monsieur Lecoq (a hero seemingly...
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  • over deduction, synthesis of character over analysis of crime. 1866: Émile Gaboriau: Monsieur Lecoq 1905: Maurice Leblanc: Arsène Lupin 1908: Gaston Leroux:...
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    novel, though it was later overshadowed by works by Wilkie Collins and Émile Gaboriau, which usually receive that accolade. Some aspects of detective fiction...
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    ratiocination" and which established the modern detective fiction genre. Émile Gaboriau and Arthur Conan Doyle were perhaps also influenced by Zadig. As Barzun...
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  • general (d. 1865) 1829 – Peter Lumsden, English general (d. 1918) 1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French author and journalist (d. 1873) 1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau...
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  • 1859 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (b. 1779) 1873 – Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832) 1891 – Herman Melville, American...
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    feature stories, serials (including the popular detective stories of Émile Gaboriau), horoscopes and opinion pieces. Also, it was distributed in the evening...
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    1915) November 6 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908) November 9 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873) November 12 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer...
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    his own work under the title The Mormon. Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, Hume obtained and read a set of...
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  • Willie's Tale" from Redgauntlet) 28 Murder of the Little Pig 03/05/1944 Émile Gaboriau 29 The Specter of Tappington 03/12/1944 Richard Barham (from The Ingoldsby...
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    Gautier, 19th century poet and writer. Jules Vallès, 19th century writer. Émile Gaboriau, 19th century writer, journalist and novelist. Jules Laforgue, 19th...
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  • September 23 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823) September 28 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (b. 1833) October 5 – William Todd, American businessman...
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  • 1912) November 6 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (died 1908) November 9 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (died 1873) November 22 – Martha Haines Butt, American...
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  • (1831–1897) Victorien Sardou (1831–1908) Valérie Simonin (1831–1919) Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873) Jules Vallès (1832–1885) Gaston Lavalley (1834–1922) Claire...
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  • Gustave Flaubert – Sentimental Education (L'Éducation sentimentale) Émile Gaboriau – Monsieur Lecoq Ivan Goncharov – The Precipice (Обрыв) Edmond and Jules...
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    Frashëri – Ta'aşşûk-ı Tal'at ve Fitnât (The Love Between Talat and Fitnat) Émile Gaboriau – La Corde au cou Thomas Hardy – A Pair of Blue Eyes William Dean Howells...
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  • crimes. It is based on a story by the nineteenth century French writer Émile Gaboriau. Lew Cody as M. Gaston Le Coq Mary Nolan as Mlle. Adoree Clara Kimball...
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  • shifts towards solving police mysteries. It is first illustrated by Émile Gaboriau, and then by others, less known today than their characters: Maurice...
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