Caught in the Net

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. 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...