Baron Trigault's Vengeance A Nineteenth-Century Paris Mystery of High-Society Scandal, Inheritance, Betrayal, and Retribution
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
28.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
180
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.2 cm
Gewicht
396 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-4026-1
Baron Trigault's Vengeance is a darkly intricate romance of crime, inheritance, and social exposure, in which an aristocrat's long-nursed desire for retribution draws together ruined women, compromised families, and the hidden economies of Parisian respectability. Gaboriau writes in the feuilleton tradition: swift chapters, theatrical reversals, documentary details, and a moral fascination with clues-letters, confessions, rumors-that make private sin publicly legible. The novel belongs to the nineteenth-century French sensation and early detective milieu, where melodrama becomes a method of social diagnosis. Émile Gaboriau, trained in journalism and associated with Paul Féval's popular fiction, brought to his novels a reporter's eye for urban systems: courts, police procedure, gossip networks, and financial speculation. Best remembered for creating Monsieur Lecoq, he helped establish the analytic habits later central to detective fiction. His recurring concern with appearances, illegitimacy, and compromised honor strongly informs this tale of vengeance. Readers who enjoy Balzacian social breadth, Dumas-like momentum, and the emerging logic of detective narrative will find this novel especially rewarding. It is recommended not merely as a gripping melodrama, but as a revealing document of how popular fiction interrogated power, class, and moral accountability.
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