TY - BOOK AU - Gaboriau,Emile TI - Monsieur Lecoq — Volume 1: L'enquête AV - PQ PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - French fiction -- 19th century KW - Lecoq, Monsieur (Fictitious character) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_Lecoq_(novel); Release date is 2008-07-04; Produced by Chuck Greif, Tiffany Vergon, Anne Dreze, Marc D'Hooghe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Monsieur Lecoq — Volume 1" by Émile Gaboriau is a detective novel serialized in 1868. When a deadly brawl erupts in a Parisian bar, leaving bodies scattered and one suspect in custody, veteran Inspector Gévrol dismisses it as a simple tavern fight. But young policeman Lecoq sees something more sinister beneath the surface. Following mysterious footprints in the snow and deciphering cryptic clues, he uncovers evidence of a sophisticated conspiracy involving disguised aristocrats and vanished accomplices, transforming what seemed obvious into an intricate puzzle. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8650 ER -