The Champdoce Mystery

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Gustave Caillebotte and Edgar Degas. A duke's heir substituted at birth, a father who ruined his own son to make him, and twenty years of a secret that several people have a use for. Gaboriau invented the French detective novel out of the police gazettes; here the crime is an old one and the detection almost incidental — what he i...