The Germ of the Detective Novel

Gaboriau’s The Widow Lerouge, illustrated by Louise L. Heustis, 1900.

   
A SHORT ESSAY — ‘The Germ of the Detective Novel’ by Henry Llewellyn Williams — published in The Book Buyer, Vol. XXI, August 1900 to January 1901, pp. 268-274. French writer Émile Gaboriau (1832-73) died when he was forty.
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