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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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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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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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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(1950–) Jacques Futrelle Frances Fyfield, pseudonym of Frances Hegarty Émile Gaboriau (1832 – 1873) Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970) Elizabeth George (1949–)...
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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. In folkloristics...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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diplomat and co-founder of Cornell University (d. 1918) November 9 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction...
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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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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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Gustave Flaubert – Sentimental Education (L'Éducation sentimentale) Émile Gaboriau – Monsieur Lecoq Ivan Goncharov – The Precipice (Обрыв) Edmond and Jules...
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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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Jean Diable, named after his eponymous novel. One of its editors was Émile Gaboriau, future creator of the police detective Monsieur Lecoq, a hero seemingly...
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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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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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followers of Émile Gaboriau, with whom his name is generally associated. He even wrote a sequel, La Vieillesse de M. Lecoq, using Gaboriau's character Monsieur...
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de Maldoror, Chant premier Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot («Идио́т») Émile Gaboriau – Slaves of Paris (Les Esclaves de Paris) Hermann Goedsche – Biarritz...
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