![]() ![]() but not for the young reporter Joseph Rouletabille, who manages to insinuate himself into the household to unravel the baffling case. It is a most perplexing case for the police. ![]() When her father and servant break into the room in response to her desperate cries for help, they find no trace of her assailant - though there is just one door, all the windows have grills, and there is nowhere in the small room for the would-be murderer to hide. In an isolated chateau in the French countryside, the beautiful Mademoiselle Stangerson is attacked in her locked chamber. Published in serial form in 1907 and in its entirety in 1908, this book has become one of the pivotal works in the genre, and is the great-grandfather (or at least the great-uncle!) of all "locked room" mysteries. "The presbytery has lost none of its charm nor the garden its brightness."These enigmatic words are just one of the many tantalizing clues scattered throughout Gaston Leroux's famous detective novel, The Mystery of the Yellow Room. ![]()
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