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Gaboriau

American  
[ga-baw-ryoh] / ga bɔˈrjoʊ /

noun

  1. Émile 1835–73, French author of detective stories.


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“Some of them have traveled 7,000 or 8,000 kilometers before getting here, so it’s not a mountainous barrier that will stop them,” said Jean Gaboriau, a mountain guide who helps run the Briançon shelter.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

Under Andrew Benvenuti’s unsteady direction, the majority of the play, written by Michel Marc Bouchard in French and translated by Linda Gaboriau, takes place as a flashback.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2021

Holmes's real-life model was Doyle's professor, hawk-eyed diagnostician Joseph Bell; writers from Émile Gaboriau to Edgar Allen Poe offered fictional prototypes.

From Nature ● Jan. 24, 2017

The third founder, Jason Gaboriau, was executive creative director before Mr. Silver’s arrival.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2011

He lay back comfortably wondering how Poe or Gaboriau would have handled such a situation with a successful robbery behind it.

From Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers by Various

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