However, before Empire Publishing Company launched a full-fledged promotional campaign, most people didn't even know that the Parisian Sleuth's real name was Francois Vidocq.
The Londoners always loved to follow trends and watch the excitement, especially the excitement coming from France and Paris.
Therefore, this "Victor's Memoirs" quickly became a fashionable topic of discussion in the city, just like many other things that had become popular in London.
The middle-class gentlemen enjoyed reading it at clubs for show, while the workers gathered around storytellers in taverns using it as curious entertainment, and the parliament wives discussed its Parisian plots at ladies' reading salons. Even Arthur heard the maids at Kensington Palace critique it a few days ago.
