This early work by Émile Gaboriau was originally published in the late
19th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new
introduction. 'Baron Trigault's Vengeance' is one of Gaboriau's novels
of crime and mystery. Émile Gaboriau was born in the small town of
Saujon, Charente-Maritime, France. During his twenties, he became a
secretary to Paul Féval - a an author now regarded as one of the fathers
of modern crime fiction, whose Jean Diable (1862) is seen as the world's
first modern detective novel.