Emile Gaboriau: 74 books

Le 20 février 18.., un dimanche, qui se trouvait être le dimanche gras, sur les onze heures du soir, une ronde d’agents du service de la sûreté sortait du poste de police de l’ancienne barrière d’Italie. La mission de cette ronde était d’explorer ce...

The observer might have fancied it a robbers' den, but he would have been wrong; for the inhabitants were fairly honest. The Hotel de Perou was one of those refuges, growing scarcer and more scarce every day, where unhappy men and women, who had been worsted in the battle of life, could find a shelter in return for the change remaining from the last five-franc piece.