Émile Gaboriau

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice."File No. 113" by Émile Gaboriau opens with a daring heist targeting a Parisian bank. The theft implicates the head cashier, Prosper Bertomy, who becomes the prime suspect. However, the renowned detective...

Ce roman policier, historique et d'amour, mené de main de maître, en passionnera plus d'un :Vers onze heures du soir, le dimanche gras de 18.., non loin de l'ancienne barrière d'Italie, des cris effroyables, lancés de la Poivrière, parviennent à la...

Monsieur Lecoq, created in 1866 by Émile Gaboriau, is the first police detective hero in fiction. A meticulous and relentless investigator, the character of Lecoq influenced the creation of later fictional detectives and is cited in Conan-Doyle’s...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Monsieur Lecoq, a young and enthusiastic detective with the French Sûreté, tackles his first major case. A brutal murder has shaken Paris, and the obvious suspect, a vagrant, seems an easy solution....

Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story :Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's drinking-shop, are heard by a party of...

Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story:Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's drinking-shop, are heard by a party of...

Considered by many to be the first detective novel, The Lerouge Case (aka The Widow Lerouge) introduces Monsieur Lecoq (later Inspector Lecoq), a former “habitual criminal” who becomes a police officer. Émile Gaboriau based Lecoq at least in part on...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In "The Lerouge Case," the idyllic village of Bougival is shattered when the Widow Lerouge vanishes. When concerned neighbors discover her home ransacked and her body near the fireplace, suspicion falls...

A murder is discovered. The authorities quickly arrest an obvious suspect. A detective spends hours at the scene in disguise before making himself known, and proceeds to minutely examine the evidence with the assistance of a doctor, among others,...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the tranquil village of Orcival, nestled amidst rolling hills, a shadow falls. The Countess de Tremorel is found murdered in her grand chateau, her life extinguished as abruptly as the flame of a...

In this, Gaboriau’s penultimate Lecoq novel, Lecoq doesn’t make an appearance until the last few chapters of the book. In fact, the protagonists’ identity remains unclear until almost halfway through. They’re not missed, though, because the...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Paris, city of lights, but also of dark secrets. In its gaslit streets, a web of deception ensnares the innocent. Young Celeste, yearning for a new life, finds herself trapped in a nightmarish reality....