The Count's Secret.

230 pp. 8vo. A mystery novel, translated from the original French. Two-column format. Gaboriau was most well-known for his detective novels featuring Monsieur Lecoq, which may have been more popular were they not contemporary with the immensely popular Sherlock Holmes stories. Detective Lecoq is discussed by Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in A Study in Scarlet (not positively - Holmes called him a 'miserable bungler').