The Count's Millions

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Honoré Daumier and Gustave Caillebotte. A count dies leaving twelve millions and no legitimate heir anyone can find — and a valet, a mistress, a doctor and a lawyer all know a different piece of why. Gaboriau was a cavalry trooper and a lawyer's clerk before he invented Monsieur Lecoq and the French detective novel; here there is ...