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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Book 1 of Les aventures de Rouletabille
- 246 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1907
- 160 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (French: Le mystère de la chambre jaune) is a mystery novel written by French author Gaston Leroux. One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it was first published serially in France in the periodical L'Illustration from September 1907 to November 1907, then in its own right in 1908.
It is the first novel starring fictional reporter Joseph Rouletabille and concerns a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floorplans illustrating the crime scene. The story provides an intellectual challenge to the reader.
The novel finds its continuation in the 1908 novel The Perfume of the Lady in Black, wherein a number of the characters familiar from this story reappear.
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Good for readers who want: a mystery, a thriller, and a book they can read free online.
- Mystery
- Thrillers
- Romance literature
- Mystery & detective, collections & anthologies
- Classics
- Crimes against
- Attempted murder
- Journalists
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