Monsieur Gaston Lecoq
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Monsieur Lecoq is the creation of Émile Gaboriau, a 19th-century French writer and journalist. Monsieur Lecoq is a fictional detective employed by the French Sûreté . The character is one of the pioneers of the genre and a major influence on Sherlock Holmes (who, in A Study in Scarlet , calls him "a miserable bungler"), laying the ...
Monsieur Lecoq is a 1914 French silent mystery film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Harry Baur.
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Monsieur Lecoq: With William Morris, Alphonse Ethier, Florence La Badie, Reginald Barlow. M. Lecoq, the famous detective, while wandering about Paris, heard shots coming from an ill-favored inn, run by Mother Chupin, who called her house the Pepperbox.
- Mystery
- Émile Gaboriau
- 1915-08-26
Monsieur Lecoq. ( 1914 ) Short. Mystery. Silent Film. Based on Book. Black and White. The Duke of Sairmuse weds Blanche Courtleigh. Shortly alter she is blackmailed for money by a band of ruffians, who threaten to inform the Duke that her brother is a hardened convict.
- France
- May 15, 1914
- September 1914
- 30 min
The famous detective Monsieur Lecoq hears several shots emanate from the infamous Pepperbox Inn and finds a man dressed as a laborer holding a revolver and standing over two dead men. After the man is arrested, Lecoq discovers clues to indicate that a woman and a lame man were also there.
Our famous and cunning detective, in this case Monsieur Lecoq (William Morris), happens upon a crime scene -- two men lay dead in front of an inn of ill-repute, the murderer (Alphonse Ethier)...
