GABORIAU, Emile The Blackmailers (large print edition) Bath: Lythway Press, (1978). Price: $20.00 Hardcover. Large print edition. Translated by Ernest Tristan. Fine in pictorial boards. Item #334681 ISBN: 085046787X Add to Cart Ask a Question item image Emile Gaboriau birth name: Emile Gaboriau born: 11/9/1832 died: 9/28/1873 View Reference Info Biography French novelist who is best known as the father of the roman policier ("detective novel"). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore