Gaboriau

Gaboriau, ÉMILE, the great master of 'police novels,' was born in 1835 at Saujon in Charente-Inférieure, and was only saved from mercantile life by a timely discovery that he could write. He had already contributed to some of the smaller Parisian papers, when he leaped into fame at a single bound with his story L'Affaire Lerouge (1866) in the feuilleton to Le Pays. It was quickly followed by Le Dossier 113 (1867), Le Crime d'Oreival (1868), Monsieur Lecoq (1869), Les Esclaves de Paris (1869), La Vie Infernale (1870), La Clique Dorée (1871), La Corde au Cou (1873), L'Argent des Autres (1874), and La Dégringolade (1876). Gaboriau died suddenly, 28th September 1873.