The Mystery of the Yellow Room
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
By: Gaston Leroux
One of the first locked-room mystery crime fiction novels, published in France in 1907, it debuts fictional detective Joseph Rouletabille, and concerns a seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floor plans illustrating the scene of the crime. The story focuses firmly on the intellectual challenge to the reader, who will almost certainly be hard pressed to unravel every detail of the situation. Agatha Christie admired the novel and in her early years wanted to write such a book.
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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.
