Two poachers out at dawn find the body of the Countess de Trémorel caught in the reeds near her husband’s estate of Valfeuillu, and the count himself is missing. While the local magistrate settles on obvious suspects, the detective Lecoq reads the ransacked house and the marks on the lawn very differently.
One of the founding novels of French detective fiction, by the writer who influenced Conan Doyle. Download the free EPUB.