File No. 113 by: Emile Gaboriau, William Glackens (Illustrator)
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 537 pages, 4 b&w plates by Glackens. A novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Emile Gaboriau, whom Andre Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". The story centers on a mysterious robbery at the bank of M. Andre Fauvel, where a significant sum of three hundred and fifty thousand francs has vanished without a trace. As the investigation unfolds, the primary suspect emerges as Prosper Bertomy, the bank's head cashier, leading to a tense exploration of loyalty, betrayal, and the pursuit of justice. Name on front fly leaf, mild scrathes to cover, otherwise clean.
