Publisher's Synopsis
Before there was Sherlock Holmes, there was Monsieur LeCoq, and this is of one his starring turns. This was written long before the elements of mystery genre writing was developed, so this does not follow the path of mystery writing that modern mystery fans would recognize. It took me a while to get into it, but then I stopped thinking and started to just enjoy the chase, as the whodunit is solved about a third of the way through the book, but the question of whether the suspect will be caught isn't resolved until almost the last page. I guess there's nothing quite like a late 19th century French potboiler!
