The Count's Millions: Twelve Millions and No Heir
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A count dies leaving twelve millions and no legitimate heir anyone can find — and a valet, a mistress, a doctor and a lawyer all know a different piece of why. Gaboriau was a cavalry trooper and a lawyer's clerk before he invented Monsieur Lecoq and the French detective novel; here there is no detective at all, only the money, and it does the work of a murderer. Fifty-six plates by painters including Daumier and Degas picture the reading, the lessons, the thieves and the jockeys of a moneyed French world, the same society Gaboriau's fortune hunts through.
A count dies leaving twelve millions and no legitimate heir anyone can find — and a valet, a mistress, a doctor and a lawyer all know a different piece of why. Gaboriau was a cavalry trooper and a lawyer's clerk before he invented Monsieur Lecoq and the French detective novel; here there is no de...
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Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873) was a French journalist and novelist who worked in Paris. He is recognized as an early master of the detective novel, creating the investigator Monsieur Lecoq, who appears in such works as The Lerouge Case and File No. 113.
Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873) was a French journalist and novelist who worked in Paris. He is recognized as an early master of the detective novel, creating the investigator Monsieur Lecoq, who appears in such works as The Lerouge Case and File No. 113.
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