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What can a good name hide when a fortune is at stake?
In The Count's Millions, Émile Gaboriau draws you into a Paris where money can hide almost anything. Old noble families live beside bankers, clerks and schemers. A large fortune draws people toward it, while secrets and inheritance sharpen the question at the heart of the mystery: who gains, and at whose cost?
This is the Paris of the Second Empire, a city of new boulevards, speculation and sudden wealth. Respectability offers no sure guide to innocence. Fine houses and polite manners can conceal lies, and the story asks you to look closer. Its slow investigation and questioning chapter endings invite you to watch, weigh and keep reading.
What you’ll discover
- A fortune worth pursuing Follow a mystery driven by inheritance, hidden wealth and the people who want it.
- Paris behind polite doors Enter a city where noble families, bankers and schemers share the landscape of sudden fortunes.
- Respectability under suspicion Look beyond a fine house and a good name to the lies they can conceal.
- The pleasure of patience Settle into a slow investigation that makes room for close attention and careful questions.
- Questions that pull you onward Discover the serial novel's steady lure, as chapter endings leave a question waiting.
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If you love crime stories with clever schemers, honest heroes and vivid pictures of old Paris, this one is yours. It suits readers who enjoy mysteries built from clues, secrets and sharp characters.
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- A great house waits as its master falls
- An heir hunter sees a fortune in the wreck
- A ruined nobleman stakes everything on a marriage
- One night of baccarat destroys an honest name
- A mother saves her son and sends him into hiding
- The count dies and the millions are gone
- Two suitors arrive and the magistrate grows suspicious
- A torn letter offers a new lead
- Money wears masks and clues link every scheme
Who’s who
- MargueriteA proud, clever young woman raised in a foundling asylum, taken in by the count, who wants to find Pascal and clear her name.
- Pascal FerailleurAn honest young lawyer, devoted to his mother, who loses his good name in one night and sets out to prove his innocence.
- Isidore FortunatA cold, careful agent who hunts missing heirs and bad debts, and who wants his forty thousand francs back.
- Marquis de ValorsayA vain, ruined nobleman who needs a rich wife within the year and will stoop to any scheme to win Marguerite.
- Viscount de CoralthA handsome adventurer with a hidden past, who serves the marquis and keeps his own secrets.
- Victor ChupinFortunat's quick young helper, once a street boy, who helps support his mother and is always looking for ways to earn money.
- Madame Lia d'ArgelesThe hostess of a gambling house, whose fixed smile hides sorrow and whose past remains mysterious.
- The Justice of the PeaceA gentle, sharp old magistrate who defends Marguerite and quietly works out where the missing millions may be.
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Die Millionen des Grafen
by Émile Gaboriau · 1870
A count collapses in a cab, two million francs vanish and an honest lawyer is framed over one night of cards.
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Why does a young woman with no name and no family find herself suspected of stealing two million francs? The Count's Millions, by Émile Gaboriau, is a Paris mystery of hidden heirs, ruined gamblers and stolen honor.
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A great house waits as its master falls
The story opens on a cold, wet evening in October at the Hôtel de Chalusse, a grand mansion on the Rue de Courcelles in Paris. The servants gather in the porter's lodge and grumble about their rich, silent master, the Count de Chalusse, and about the young woman who lives in his house, Mademoiselle Marguerite.
Then a cab driver bursts in, shouting for help. The count lies crumpled inside his cab, struck down by apoplexy and unable to speak. Marguerite kneels at his bed in tears. A bald, pompous young doctor named Jodon questions her and learns that a letter upset the count at breakfast, and that he spent the afternoon searching the garden for its torn pieces.
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What is The Count's Millions about?
It follows a wealthy count who collapses, two million francs that go missing, and Marguerite, the young woman left without a family name or a secure future. Around her, an honest lawyer is framed and several schemers hunt for the fortune.
Who is Marguerite in The Count's Millions?
Marguerite is a foundling raised in an asylum, then chosen as ward by the Count de Chalusse. She suspects that he is her father, though he never gives her a clear answer. She loves the lawyer Pascal Ferailleur and distrusts the people around her.
Who wrote The Count's Millions and when?
Émile Gaboriau is the author. The story is set in nineteenth-century Paris. It is a work of fiction, though it draws on real features of the city such as the Bourse and the Bois de Boulogne.
The author
Émile Gaboriau
1832–1873 · French detective novelist
Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873) was a French writer born in Saujon, France. He later lived in Paris, where he died. He wrote novels and stories, including detective fiction featuring Monsieur Lecoq. The Lerouge Case appeared in 1866, followed by The Mystery of Orcival in 1867 and Monsieur Lecoq in 1868.
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