crime sensationalism
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“E. Villiod, Détective.” Frontispiece photo-portrait in Comment on nous vole, comment on nous tue (“How They Rob Us, How They Kill Us”). Paris: Chez l’Auteur, 1905. Author’s collection. Without a doubt, the most enterprising French private detective of the Belle Époque was Eugène Villiod. From 1899 to the mid-1930s, Villiod operated a private detective agency…
