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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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