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Emile Gaboriau and His School

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Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq (1868) is so clearly a detective novel in the modern sense that it takes one's breath away. Here is clearly a major point of coalescence of the genre. (Mike Grost)

Émile Gaboriau

Anton Chekhov

The Safety Match (The Swedish Match) - Short story - 9th story in collection

Augusta Groner

The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow - Short story collection

Villiers de L’Isle Adam

The Torture by Hope - Short story - 10th section of collection

- Mike Grost's recommended reading

- A Hayworth-Queen Cornerstone

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