Project Gutenberg 2005-02-18 Public domain in the USA. 86 Gaboriau, Emile 1832 1873 Gaboriau, Émile La corde au cou Reading ease score: 73.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Ebooks libres et gratuits, and Chuck Greif "La corde au cou" by Émile Gaboriau is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story appears to revolve around an intense mystery involving a fire at the Valpinson estate and the attempted murder of its owner, the Comte de Claudieuse. Key characters include the mayor, Monsieur Séneschal, and Monsieur de Claudieuse, alongside the enigmatic Cocoleu, who may play a pivotal role in unraveling the events. At the start of the narrative, a frantic horseman disrupts the quiet of the night, alerting the mayor about a severe fire at the Valpinson estate. This incident is accompanied by the revelation of an assassination attempt on the count, raising the stakes significantly. As locals rush to respond to the crisis, the background of the characters and their relationships surface, notably the tension between the count and Monsieur de Boiscoran, who becomes embroiled in the subsequent investigation. As the scene unfolds, the opening provides a dramatic backdrop of urgency and suspense, setting the stage for a complex interplay of crime, community dynamics, and investigation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Detective and mystery stories French fiction -- 19th century PQ Text Detective Fiction FR Littérature Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 1088270 1088271 2024-10-07T03:57:46.757329 2023-09-07T06:00:18.418212 text/html text/html 1084716 2014-09-05T10:45:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 384582 2014-09-05T10:45:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 461323 2024-10-07T03:58:02.227275 application/epub+zip 481620 2024-10-07T03:57:49.595361 application/epub+zip 2182643 2014-09-05T10:44:58 text/rtf 398221 2009-01-01T07:16:24 text/rtf application/zip 481620 2024-10-07T03:57:47.931330 application/epub+zip 851119 2024-10-07T03:58:11.262254 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 832011 2024-10-07T03:58:01.120269 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 810967 2022-09-07T19:56:47.584734 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1035786 2024-10-07T03:57:41.646854 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1035716 2014-09-05T10:45:12 text/plain; charset=utf-8 378989 2014-09-05T10:45:52 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1009877 2014-09-05T10:45:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 375023 2014-09-05T10:45:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 23592 2024-10-07T03:58:11.421268 application/rdf+xml 12075 2024-10-07T03:57:48.545329 image/jpeg 3313 2024-10-07T03:57:48.233331 image/jpeg 448022 2024-10-07T03:57:46.857329 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia