Juri, Mark, other friends,
Actually, you mean Vidocq, the famous French criminal turned
sleuth. His memoirs are so fantastic many considered them
fiction or exagerated truth.
Gaborieau was after Poe and a Dickens/Collins contemporary
who wrote
"L'Affaire Lerouge", the first French detective novel and one
of the first in any language. His main detective here was P鲥
Tabaret, but a minor figure in Lerouge, Lecoq, became the
protagonist of most (if not all) of his subsequent mystery
novels and is perhaps the first recurring mystery novel
detective. After his (Gaborieau's) death, Fortune De
Boisgobey (may have his name spelled wrong!) wrote more Lecoq
novels. Lecoq and Dupin (Poe's creation) were mentioned
contemptuosly by Sherlock Holmes in his first appearence, "A
Study in Scarlet".
Enrique F. Bird PicR>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juri Nummelin [SMTP:
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 2:10 PM
> To:
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> Mark Sullivan wrote:
>
> > Anyway, there is clearly an appeal to true-life
criminal exploits. So
> > how far back does it go? If I remember
correctly, didn't Poe and
> > Dickens both base detectives (arguably the
first fictional detectives)
> > on the memoirs of a French (?) thief taker? Not
exactly a crook, but
> > not really a cop either.
>
> You mean Gaboriau, who wrote his memoirs early in
the 19th century and
> became
> sort of a example for Poe and Dickens, like you
said.
>
> Juri
>
jurnum@utu.fi
>
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