Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry, credited to Émile Gaboriau, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Monsieur Lecoq, Part1: The Inquiry by Émile Gaboriau. Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story : Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's drinking-shop, are heard by a party of detectives led by Inspector Gévrol. The squad runs up to it. A triple murder has just been committed. The murderer is caught on the premises. Despite Gévrol's opinion that four scoundrels encountered each other in this vile den, that they began to quarrel, that one of them had a revolver and killed the others, Lecoq, a young police agent, suspects a great mystery. He will lead his investigation until he gets to the bottom of it. The story takes us in the dark times of France after the Revolution and in the Terror, and finds its roots in a story of love and power. (Summary by Ezwa, expanded by Nadine)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry
• Author credits: Émile Gaboriau
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 11:21:48

Catalogue topics

• French literature
• mystery
• detective
• Lecoq
• Father Absinthe
• Gévrol
• Sairmeuse
• deception

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 01 — 27:16
2. 02 — 10:52
3. 03 — 10:45
4. 04 — 29:30
5. 05 — 10:05
6. 06 — 9:47
7. 07 — 11:44
8. 08 — 16:52
9. 09 — 18:20
10. 10 — 10:40
11. 11 — 9:47
12. 12 — 19:40
13. 13 — 10:54
14. 14 — 12:15
15. 15 — 12:44
16. 16 — 35:13
17. 17 — 12:08
18. 18 — 11:21
19. 19 — 10:33
20. 20 — 22:20
21. 21 — 21:46
22. 22 — 11:28
23. 23 — 21:37
24. 24 — 10:25

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