#OTD in 1852.
Wilkie Collins' first contribution to Household Words, "The traveller's story of a terribly strange bed", is an early example of crime fiction involving the (Paris) police.
The Dead Secret was first published serially in Charles Dickens' Household Words weekly magazine in 1857, with 23 installments between January 3rd and June 13th. It was published in book form by Bradbury & Evans later the same year.
The Dead secret at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43092
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