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The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy, and Private Eye by James Morton
The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy, and Private Eye
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James Morton
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The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy, and Private Eye

James Morton

288 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime mysterious slow-paced
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Eugene François Vidocq was born in France in 1775 and his life spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the 1848 revolutions. He was the Inspector Morse, the Sherlock Holmes, the James Bond of his day. A notorious criminal in his you...

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