The Widow Lerouge

by Émile Gaboriau, George A. O. Ernst Fred Williams

$850 · Offered by Royal Books

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. First American Edition, preceded by the French edition published as L'Affaire Lerouge in 1866.The first book to introduce Émile Gaboriau's fictional detective Monsieur Lecoq. Lecoq is considered to have been a major influence on Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes. Good only, with moderate foxing throughout, lightly rubbed board edges, and a

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