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| - Rouletabille (Joseph Josephin) was a brilliant 18-year-old investigative journalist, raised in a religious orphanage in Eu, a small town near Fécamp, France. He was the son of an evil mastermind, but decided to put his own genius to work for the law. In his first adventure, Rouletabille opposses Ballmeyer, a notorious international criminal with many identities, who poses as police detective Frederic Larsan. Later, Rouletabille became a French secret agent, infiltrated the Krupp factories and saved Paris from being annihilated by a German missile.
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| - Rouletabille (Joseph Josephin) was a brilliant 18-year-old investigative journalist, raised in a religious orphanage in Eu, a small town near Fécamp, France. He was the son of an evil mastermind, but decided to put his own genius to work for the law. In his first adventure, Rouletabille opposses Ballmeyer, a notorious international criminal with many identities, who poses as police detective Frederic Larsan. After defeating Ballmeyer, Rouletabille is summoned to Russia by the Czar, where he solves a murder at the Imperial Court. In 1914, the fearless journalist marries the beautiful Ivana Vilitchkov and defeats the mad Turkish warlord Gaulow, Lord of the Black Castle. Later, Rouletabille became a French secret agent, infiltrated the Krupp factories and saved Paris from being annihilated by a German missile. In Le Crime de Rouletabille, the detective is almost framed for Ivana's murder. Then, in Rouletabille chez les Bohémiens, he helps recover the "Book of the Ancestors" stolen from the Gypsies and thwarts Madame de Mayrens, aka La Pieuvre (The Octopus).
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