Baron Trigault's Vengeance
1913
Emile Gaboriau invented the detective novel fifteen years before Sherlock Holmes drew his first breath. Baron Trigault's Vengeance is the electrifying sequel to The Count's Millions, a revenge thriller that proves French crime fiction could match anything the British masters conjured. Pascal Ferailleur was a man with a future: wealth, promise, and the woman he loved. Then slander destroyed everything. Falsely accused of crimes he didn't commit, he lost his place in society and the woman he adored. Now only one thing consumes him: vengeance. His targets are the enigmatic Baron Trigault and the sinister Marquis de Valorsay, men of power who ruined his life and may have destroyed others. But Marguerite's mysterious past threatens to unravel everything. As Pascal hunts his prey through a web of Parisian society, he discovers that the truth cuts deeper than betrayal. This is detective fiction's bold, brutal ancestor. It's for readers who want their crime fiction raw, their stakes achingly human, and their vengeance served ice cold.
