Editing Police procedural (section)

=== French ''roman policier'' ===
French ''romans policiers'' [[:fr:roman policier|(fr)]] value induction over deduction, synthesis of character over analysis of crime.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dorff |first1=Susan L. |title=The French Connection: A short history of the roman policier from Vidocq (the real-life founder of the Sûreté) to Simenon's Maigret to France's current bestselling crime writer, Frédéric Dard |journal=The Armchair Detective |date=Fall 1989 |volume=22 |issue=4 |url=http://www.trussel.com/maig/dorff.htm |access-date=24 March 2021 |publisher=trussel.com |quote=Susan L. Dorff is a professor of French at Boston University<!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20210324052920/https://www.bu.edu/nisprod/coursedesc/data/archives/200709251128/www.bu.edu/bulletins/und/item12e.html -->}}</ref>
*1866: [[Émile Gaboriau]]: [[Monsieur Lecoq]]
*1905: [[Maurice Leblanc]]: [[Arsène Lupin]]
*1908: [[Gaston Leroux]]: [[Joseph Rouletabille]]
*1931: [[Georges Simenon]]: [[Inspector Maigret]]
*1949: [[Frédéric Dard]]: "San-Antonio"