Do you what is a Gumshoe and who is Eugène-François Vidocq?
Vidocq is an inspiration to many novelist and writers and a French criminal!! But that is only one half of the story!
Now the Sherlock series starring Benedict is one of the best series on Holmes and here Sherlock calls himself a Highly functional sociopath! In simple terms the only difference between him and the criminal is that he is on this side of the law!
Even in the movie catch me if you can, the thief played by Leonardo is finally recruited in catching thieves like him!
This brings us to a conclusion that only a criminal and that too a successful criminal can become a politi…I mean Detective!
In the lines of Lincoln Rhyme, the best detective on chair! To catch a criminal you must think like one! Get into his mind and proceed! Amelia Sach’s his assistant and future wife (that is when she was no longer his assistant!) had done that many times!
And the one who actually started this trend was Vidocq!
So after a bad childhood and life of crime and several brush with the law and also being sentenced to death, he finally had a revelation and a change of heart and then told his superiors that he can work as an informer!
Years passed and finally he became a criminalist and helped the police catch criminals! With his fame and fortune growing he became more professional on the other or this time, the right side of the law!
He later on became the founder and first director of France’s first criminal investigative agency, the Sûreté Nationale, as well as the head of the first known private detective agency. Vidocq is considered to be the father of modern criminology and of the French national police force. He is also regarded as the first private detective!
This story has inspired so many writers including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac! Edgar Allan Poe was prompted by one story about Vidocq created the first detective in fiction, C. Auguste Dupin, who appeared, for example, in the short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, which is considered the first detective story!
Inspired by this and many other story was another author who was a doctor with a genius mind called Arthur Conan Doyle and created one of the most famous detectives ever; Sherlock Holmes!
Did we miss something!? Well yeah, Gumshoe!
So the chief characters of a detective like say, The Batman (he is actually a detective more than a crime fighter! In fact in the early novels, his detective skills were more famous! He was again ‘inspired’ by Holmes!); is that they have to be shady and stay in the shadows! And most importantly they must be quiet! So when they walk the shoes which used to be very hard those days used to make lots of noise!
The early detectives thus had a special type of rubber soled shoes which used to be quiet! It became their trademark so much so that of the the slang for the detectives used to be GUMSHOE!
To gumshoe meant “to sneak around,” and by 1906 became a common nickname for plainclothes detectives (or “private eyes”), famous for moving stealthily in their quiet rubber-soled shoes!
Now another group of detectives are those who like to sneak and reveal secrets! They find the truth and tell it to us! They are called Journalists and news reporters! Of course nowadays when I want something fun and full of gossip I see the news while for serious and truthful stuff I see the shows in OTT! One of the most famous news anchor and probably one of the loudest is birthday celebrity Arnab Ranjan Goswami!
Do not listen to him before you sleep though! He will wake you up!
Good Night!
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