File No 113 Emile Gaboriau 9781516977383 Books
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In the Paris evening papers of Tuesday, February 28, 1866, under the head of Local Items, the following announcement appeared "A daring robbery, committed against one of our most eminent bankers, M. Andre Fauvel, caused great excitement this morning throughout the neighborhood of Rue de Provence. "The thieves, who were as skilful as they were bold, succeeded in making an entrance to the bank, in forcing the lock of a safe that has heretofore been considered impregnable, and in possessing themselves of the enormous sum of three hundred and fifty thousand francs in bank-notes.
File No 113 Emile Gaboriau 9781516977383 Books
One of the better Monsieur Lecoq stories, as he’s in the majority of it, even though disguised. Plus it’s really cool Gaboriau used a real unsolved mystery as the basis of the novel. It honestly got a little dry when it was going through some of the back story of the villain. But the end was tied up in a nice bow! Now I’m reading the next book in the series, Slaves of Paris: Caught in the Net, and I’m realizing that it’s all about a reference made in File No. 113 about the criminal elements of Paris always at work but not always accessible by the police. It’s starting to feel like the “Monsieur Lecoq” & “The Honor of the Name” duo, but in reverse order. It’s too bad the series is done after the next book. Gaboriau has an interesting writing style. When he gets into the intricate dramas and side plots of each of the characters it reminds me a lot of Alexandre Dumas. Which I enjoy. But I prefer the side-by-side solving of the crime by Lecoq, similar to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, which of course was inspired in part by the Lecoq stories; which is how I discovered Emile Gaboriau.Product details
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File No 113 Emile Gaboriau 9781516977383 Books Reviews
Gaboriau's great detective, Monsieur Lecoq, appeared in several novels and influenced generations of detectives to come, including Holmes. File No.113 was first published in 1867. It gives us a wonderful picture of Lecoq at work.
We watch him assume various amusing disguises. He's such a master of imposture that not even his fellow policemen know his true face! We witness him orchestrating a network of police and amateur spies. We groan as he makes mistakes and marvel at how adeptly he recovers from his errors. We see him engage in scheming as devious and intricate as the duplicity of the criminals he's trying to ensnare.
The plot is launched with a clever bank robbery that implicates the head cashier, Prosper Bertomy. This attractive young man engages the interest of Lecoq, who suspects Prosper may be falsely accused. The fact that Prosper is unhappily in love also stirs Lecoq's sympathy. The wily detective is the champion of love in all its forms, as befits a Frenchman of good heart.
Human passions fuel events, and the events in the novel are sensational. Besides robbery there's murder, conspiracy, blackmail. The most respectable people engage in egregious lying. At times the elaborate scheming of the conspirators becomes a bit tedious, but I was so caught up in the story I didn't mind. Gaboriau is just trying to keep us in suspense. Nineteenth-century readers had the patience to wait for Lecoq to outwit the criminals.
Clues are examined, suspicious characters tailed and their backgrounds researched, as they might be in a modern thriller. But then there are the elaborate disguises and the Victorian morality to remind us we're in the nineteenth century.
So I loved this novel, as I have loved everything by Gaboriau. And I liked this edition from Distinction Press for its readable format and interesting editorial content. The first book in which Lecoq appears, though briefly, is The Widow Lerouge, which I also highly recommend.
The most important author of detective novels was the Frenchman Émile Gaboriau (1832-1873). Far too little known today, Gaboriau is remembered in France as the 'father of the roman policier' and indeed many believe he can lay claim to having invented the modern detective novel. Directly in the tradition of Vidocq, but further influenced by Poe and probably Eugene Sue (whose The Mysteries of Paris had been one of the sensations of 1843), Gaboriau created the police detective Monsieur Lecoq. He appeared in not one but five novels. In the first, L'Affaire Lerouge (1866) he takes rather a back seat to the consulting detective Father Tabaret, whose methods Lecoq adopts, but in the later novels he takes centre stage. In fact you can see the character evolve from book to book - Crime d'Orcival (1867), Le Dossier no.113 (1867), Les Escalves de Paris (1868) and possibly the best Monsieur Lecoq (1869). These books are less easy to find today.
Le Dossier No. 113 (1867) ("File Number 113") is the most disappointing of Gaboriau's books. It does not start out with a detailed look at a crime scene, followed by deductions. H. Douglas Thomson compared it scornfully to a Hollywood thriller. It is also slow moving. It does have a great title, and the inside look at a French bank in the opening chapters is moderately interesting. It does show some features in common with Gaboriau's other fiction the look at young men's mistresses recalls L'Affaire Lerouge; the wily persistence of the young bank clerk in evading police investigation anticipates the murder suspect in Monsieur Lecoq; and the construction of the puzzle plot contains features that will be expanded in "Le Petit Vieux des Batignoles", which contains one of Gaboriau's most complex plots. But all in all, this is a poor book....
More twist than the best roller coaster, well worth the time, really good story. I completely enjoyed it and hope others will too.
One of the better Monsieur Lecoq stories, as he’s in the majority of it, even though disguised. Plus it’s really cool Gaboriau used a real unsolved mystery as the basis of the novel. It honestly got a little dry when it was going through some of the back story of the villain. But the end was tied up in a nice bow! Now I’m reading the next book in the series, Slaves of Paris Caught in the Net, and I’m realizing that it’s all about a reference made in File No. 113 about the criminal elements of Paris always at work but not always accessible by the police. It’s starting to feel like the “Monsieur Lecoq” & “The Honor of the Name” duo, but in reverse order. It’s too bad the series is done after the next book. Gaboriau has an interesting writing style. When he gets into the intricate dramas and side plots of each of the characters it reminds me a lot of Alexandre Dumas. Which I enjoy. But I prefer the side-by-side solving of the crime by Lecoq, similar to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, which of course was inspired in part by the Lecoq stories; which is how I discovered Emile Gaboriau.
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