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US$34.95/GBP 24.99 6x9 tpb, 580 p. ISBN-10: 1-934543-31-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-934543-31-3 |
Monsieur Lecoq (no first-name was ever given by Gaboriau) is an agent of the dreaded French Sureté. He is a methodical, scientific-minded de-tective who, like Sherlock Holmes, carefully gathers minute clues from the scene of the crime and, from them, draws logical conclusions which, at first, amaze his colleagues but prove eminently rational when ex-plained.
Like Sherlock Holmes, Lecoq has an older mentor who, like Mycroft, helps him solve particularly challenging puzzles from the com-fort of his bed. It is armchair detective Tabaret, nicknamed Père Tire-au-clair, i.e.: Father Bringer of Light, a title Lecoq himself will eventually inherit in his old age.
Nina Cooper, holds a Ph. D. in contemporary French literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She has done work on the theaters of Gabriel Marcel and Jean-Paul Sartre as well as on the short stories of Julien Green. Teaching experience includes French at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas; Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas; English and French at The University of Texas at Austin, and English as a Second Language for foreign military (U. S. Department of Defense (Defense Language Institute, San Antonio, Texas.)
Contents:
Monsieur Lecoq (1908)
by Emile Gaboriau
Introduction by Nina Cooper
Afterword: The biography of M. Lecoq by Rick Lai