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| | Emile Gaboriau and his School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Gaboriau does not do this, at least in Monsieur Lecoq; most of his detection is limited to the opening chapters, and comes all at once, revealing everything he will learn about the case in nearly a single fell swoop. |
 | | The technique is used with systematic elaborateness by Green, and one suspects that from her it passed on to modern writers of mystery fiction, such as Christie, Rinehart, and Van Dine, all of whom are on record as having read Green, and all of whom use the technique. |
 | | Gaboriau's interest in science is also apparent here: at one point a detective complains that although there has been much progress in the last twenty years, including the photograph and the telegraph, the police are not effectively using these to capture criminals. |
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