Publisher's Synopsis
Emile Gaboriau, a contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle is considered one of the founders of the "detective novel." If you like the novels of Sherlock Holmes, you will like its French counterpart Mr. Lecocq. Those who anticipated the discovery of a crime, were unhappily not deceived. The commissary was convinced of this as soon as he crossed the threshold. Everything in the first room pointed with a sad eloquence to the recent presence of a malefactor. The furniture was knocked about, and a chest of drawers and two large trunks had been forced and broken open.
