Caught in the Net
Gaboriau, Emile · 1868
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Description
Emile Gaboriau's Paris crime novel, dated 1868 in this edition, opens on a bitter February day at the Hotel de Perou, a cheap lodging house. The landlady worries over her top-floor tenants: old Daddy Tantaine, young Paul Violaine, and Rose, a girl she judges far too pretty for the house.
Money, blackmail, and hidden pasts draw those lodgers into a web worked by harder hands. A banker who says cruel things in honeyed tones shows the world the tenants are caught in. Twenty-seven chapters tighten the net by stages, through pressure, pursuit, and disclosure. Gaboriau builds the tale from small lodgings and small sums up to ruin and revenge.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gaboriau, Emile |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1868 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 567 KB |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Imperial Library of Trantor |
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