(#177599) THE CASEBOOK OF MONSIEUR LECOQ: THE ORCIVAL MURDER [and] FILE 113 ... Translated and Introduced by Nina Cooper. Emile Gaboriau.

THE CASEBOOK OF MONSIEUR LECOQ: THE ORCIVAL MURDER [and] FILE 113 ... Translated and Introduced by Nina Cooper. [Encino, CA]: A Black Coat Press Book, [2016]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First printing of this edition. A new translation of two roman policiers featuring detective M. Lecoq, both first published in 1867. Many consider Gaboriau and Poe to be the founders of the detective fiction genre. The Black Coat Press edition includes a useful 7-page introduction by Nina Cooper. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989) 1392. See Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction 188, 189, 198 and 199 for various editions of translations into English. A fine copy. Trade paperback format. (#177599).

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