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Within an Inch of His Life
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780809530588
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Oct 11 2024
Pages: 620
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Within an Inch of His Life is a gripping tale of crime and justice by Émile Gaboriau, one of the pioneers of detective fiction. This psychological mystery follows a man accused of a heinous crime, where every piece of evidence seems damning. With intricate plotting, courtroom drama, and sharp investigative work, this classic explores themes of truth, justice, and human nature.
Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the roman policier with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriau's huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly, Holmes may have been at least partly based on another of Gaboriau's characters, consulting detective Father Tabaret, whose methods Monsieur Lecoq adopts in the first Lecoq book.
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