Mystery of the Yellow Room

by Gaston Leroux

30 chapters8h 22mEnglish1908

About this book

This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera: prepare to feel the hairs standing up on the back of your neck... (Summary by Stuart Bell)

Chapters (30)

1In Which We Begin Not to Understand

1276

2In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time

821

3"A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow..."

1277

4In the Bosom of Wild Nature

555

5In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark...

623

6In the Heart of the Oak Grove

1650

7In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition...

1028

8The Examining Magistrate Questions...

827

9Reporter and Detective

948

10"We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat--Now"

900

11In Which Frederic Larsan Explains How the Murderer...

2816

12Frederic Larsan's Cane

691

13"The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm..."

1385

14"I Expect the Assassin This Evening"

688

15The Trap

1587

16Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter

426

17The Inexplicable Gallery

903

18Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle...

327

19Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast...

1787

20An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson

730

21On the Watch

1092

22The Incredible Body

452

23The Double Scent

452

24Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves...

1062

25Rouletabille Goes on a Journey

152

26In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited...

963

27In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His... (Part A)

1737

28In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His... (Part B)

1817

29In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always...

511

30The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson

646

Mystery of the Yellow Room

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Chapters (30)

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