Monsieur Lecoq (novel)

Monsieur Lecoq (novel)

Monsieur Lecoq is a novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Émile Gaboriau, whom André Gide referred to as “the father of all current detective fiction.”. The novel depicts the first case of Monsieur Lecoq, an energetic young policeman who appears in other novels by Gaboriau.