The Lerouge Case

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Gustave Caillebotte and Claude Monet. A widow is strangled in her cottage at La Jonchère, and an old amateur named Tabaret works out the murderer's height, age, habits and profession from the room in an afternoon — and is wrong. Gaboriau published this in 1866, the first true detective novel in French; Lecoq is a junior man in it,...