Other People's Money by Émile Gaboriau: Bestseller Mystery & Thriller

Classic French mystery novel, in English translation. According to Wikipedia: "Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 – September 28, 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction... after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866).

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The book, which was Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced an amateur detective. It also introduced a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels.

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The character of Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857)." One of Robert Louis Stevenson's favorite authors.

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