Gaboriau

As to literary manner, Gaboriau was not a writer of the first order, even as a French popular novelist.

“You may gather some notions from Gaboriau,” resumed the stranger.

They brought Gaboriau a large income during his lifetime, and they are still valuable literary properties.

In the picturization of a Gaboriau story the woman declines to tell before the court her life story which ended in a crime.