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n. - French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873).

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  • He lay back comfortably wondering how Poe or Gaboriau would have handled such a situation with a successful robbery behind it.
  • They end in two long detective-tales like those which M. Gaboriau has popularised, the Rogueries of Dalilah and the Adventures of Mercury
  • Allan Poe is a fumbler, and Gaboriau the veriest tiro.
  • Gaboriau claims, in the same way, even more "clamantly."
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