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The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy and Private Eye
Overlook Hardcover
July 2011
On Sale: June 30, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 159020638X
EAN: 9781590206386
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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, he turned police officer and employed a gang of ex-convicts as his detectives. He invented innovative criminal indexing techniques and experimented with fingerprinting, until his cavalier attitude towards the thin blue line forced him out of the police. So he began the world¹s very first private detective agency. The cases he solved were high profile and he grew in notoriety. However, his infamy didn¹t prevent him from becoming a spy and moving secretly across the dangerous borders of Europe. This is a gloriously enjoyable historical romp through the eighteenth century in the company of the man whose influence still holds to this day.
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