Gaston Leroux

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868–1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, 1911), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name and The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907), the famous locked-room mystery.