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Monsieur Lecoq
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Monsieur Lecoq is the creation of Émile Gaboriau, a 19th-century French writer and journalist. Monsieur Lecoq is afictional detective employed by the French Sûreté. The character is one of the pioneers of the genre and a major influence on Sherlock Holmes, laying the groundwork for the methodical, scientifically minded detective. In the person of armchair detective Tabaret, nicknamed Père Tireauclair, a title Lecoq himself will eventually inherit, Gaboriau also created an older mentor for Lecoq who, likeMycroft Holmes and Nero Wolfe, helps the hero solve particularly challenging puzzles while remaining largely inactive physically. In Tabaret's case, aid is dispensed from the comfort of his bed.
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