Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 - September 28, 1873), a Frenchmystery writer, novelist, and journalist, one of the pioneers of modern detective fiction. Gaboriau's first book of the genre, L'Affaire Lerouge (1866) introduced an amateur detective, who works logically. In the same book appeared also a young policeman named Lecoq, the hero in three of Gaboriau's detective novels. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman, François Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs, Les Vrais Mémoires de Vidocq, mixed fiction and fact.
Émile Gaboriau was born 9 November 1832 in the village of Saujon, Charente-Martime, France.
Gaboriau was developing his ideas during a time of great change in the early 19th century.
Gaboriau weaves an authentic depiction of the criminal milieu while accounting for the social and cultural aspects of nineteenth century Paris and France.
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