File No. 113
Book 3 of Monsieur Lecoq
Language: English
Bank robberies -- Fiction Bankers -- Fiction Deception -- Fiction Detective and mystery stories Detectives -- Fiction Family secrets -- Fiction France -- Fiction Mystery fiction _sort
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: Jul 17, 2019
Description:
A bank is robbed and only two men appear to have the means to have done it; Monsieur Lecoq must discern if it was one of them or an “impossible” third party.
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A bank safe is robbed. Only two men have both the key and the combination to the safe. The police naturally look to the employee rather than the owner of the bank. But Monsieur Lecoq, as always, sees what everyone else misses. Was it one of the two? Or was it a seemingly-impossible third party? Only Lecoq will be able to determine it. But why doesn’t he want his involvement in the case known?
Like Gaboriau’s two novels before it, File No. 113 is a mystery with a Dickensian tragedy behind it. Men and women of good character, of bad character, and good character who make bad choices abound, and remind us that the best mysteries have great personalities inhabiting them.