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Gaboriau

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Noun1.Gaboriau - French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873)
Emile Gaboriau
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The books he liked were queer; sometimes I would find him poring over the poems of Mallarme, and he read them as a child reads, forming the words with his lips, and I wondered what strange emotion he got from those subtle cadences and obscure phrases; and again I found him absorbed in the detective novels of Gaboriau.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
 
 
 
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