Widow Lerouge

This early work by Émile Gaboriau was originally published in 1866 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. ''The Widow Lerouge'' is one of Gaboriau''s novels of crime and mystery. Émile Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime, France. During his twenties, he became a secretary to Paul Féval - a an author now regarded as one of the fathers of modern crime fiction, whose Jean Diable (1862) is seen as the world''s first modern detective novel.