Other People's Money by: Emile Gaboriau, Victor Perard(Illustrator)
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 533 pages, 4 b&w plates by Victor Perard. 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 revolves around a wealthy banker named Andre Fauvel, who is found dead in his office one morning. The police quickly suspect his son, Raoul, who has a reputation for being a spendthrift and is known to have had a strained relationship with his father. However, Raoul insists on his innocence and enlists the help of his friend, detective Monsieur Lecoq, to clear his name. Other People's Money is a thrilling mystery novel that explores the corrupt world of finance in 19th-century France. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
