The Mystery of Orcival
by Émile Gaboriau
421 pages~7 hrs
“Before Sherlock Holmes, there was Lecoq.”
When a countess is found murdered and the obvious suspects are hauled away, the brilliant Inspector Lecoq senses a deeper, more sinister truth lurking beneath the surface. This classic French masterpiece pits keen intellect against a web of aristocratic secrets in a race to find a killer who thought they were above suspicion.
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