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| Author | Émile Gaboriau |
|---|---|
| Language | French |
| Genre | Detective novel |
Publication date | 27 May 1868 (1st edition) |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Print (Newspaper) |
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".[1] The novel depicts the first case of Monsieur Lecoq, an energetic young policeman who appears in other novels by Gaboriau.
- ^ Bonnoit, R: Émile Gaboriau ou la Naissance du Roman Policier, Paris: Librairie Philosophique J Vrin, 1985.