Lecoq is a detective police agent

Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873) is one of the founders of the detective genre, whose works became the basis for many subsequent authors. His very first novel, The Lerouge Affair (1866), caused a great stir by introducing the public to a new type of hero - a clever, insightful detective, in whom society saw a kind of "e;guardian angel"e;. This is exactly the character that became his famous police inspe...