BOISGOBEY, FORTUNE ABRAHAM DU (1824 1891), French writer of fiction, whose real surname was Castille, was born at Granville (Manche) on Sept. I1, 1824, and died Feb. 26, 1891. He served in the army pay department in Algeria from 1844 to 1848, and extended his travels to the East. Among the many famous police stories written by him are : Les Mysteres du nouveau Paris (1876), Le Demi-Monde sous la Terreur Les Nuits de Constantinople (1882), Le Cri du sang (1885), La Main froide (188g).