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Mystery of the Yellow Room (Detective Club Crime Classics)
Mystery of the Yellow Room (Detective Club Crime Classics) | Gaston Leroux
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One of the defining novels of the entire crime genre, Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room has inspired readers and writers including Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, and is now republished in hardback in the Detective Club series with a brand new introduction.Breaking down her door in response to the sounds of a violent attack and a gunshot, Mademoiselle Stangerson's rescuers are appalled to find her dying on the floor, clubbed down by a large mutton bone. But in a room with a barred window and locked door, how could her assailant have entered and escaped undetected? While bewildered police officials from the Sret' begin an exhaustive investigation, so too does a young newspaperman, Joseph Rouletabille, who will encounter more impossibilities before this case can be closed.The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux, best remembered today as the author of The Phantom of the Opera, has been deservedly praised for more than a century as a defining book in the 'impossible crime' genre, as readable now as when it first appeared in French in 1907.This Detective Club classic includes an introduction by John Curran, who discusses how the book impressed and influenced a young Agatha Christie, was lauded by genre giants including John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen and Julian Symons, and remains to this day one of the most effective and enjoyable locked room mysteries ever written.
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MariaW
MariaW
Das Geheimnis des gelben Zimmers: Le Mystre de la chambre jaune | Gaston Leroux
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I tried a murder mystery which was not written by Christie or Doyle and enjoyed it very much. I liked the idea of the locked room murder und how cheeky journalist Rouletabille tries to solve the case. There are funny scenes as well, e.g. when Rouletabille climbs a tree to eavesdrop and finds the investigating inspector already in the tree. 🤪 And halfway through the book I realized the author did write The Phantom of the Opera. 🙈

Ruthiella This is one of the classic mysteries that is on my list. 1mo
Bookwomble The Rouletabille novels are good fun. I've only found three of them in English translation, and there are five more that I really wish somebody would have a go at! 1mo
MariaW @Ruthiella It has been on my list for a long time as well. I definitely enjoyed it. 😊 1mo
MariaW @Bookwomble There only three in German as well, only two available as ebbok and the third can only be ordered as used paperback - but a zillion different version of The Phantom of the Opera. We have to learn French now, I guess. 🤣 1mo
Bookwomble @MariaW Zut alors!! More work to do! 😄 1mo
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MariaW
MariaW
Mystery of the Yellow Room (Detective Club Crime Classics) | Gaston Leroux
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Trying to get hold of my actual book piles - yep, there‘s more than one (and more than the two ins this picture) - and the virtual ones. I am switching from one to the other.

Gissy Welcome to the ones happily trapped in a book maze📚🙌😂I hope translated right😳🤷🏽‍♀️ 1mo
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crimeanddramabookaholic
crimeanddramabookaholic
The Mystery of the Yellow Room | Margaret Jull Costa, Gaston Leroux
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Excellent translated locked room mystery. So glad I stumbled across this. Vibes of Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie‘s And then there were none. Recommend if you enjoy locked room mysteries. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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writerlibrarian
writerlibrarian
LE MYSTERE DE LA CHAMBRE JAUNE | Gaston Leroux
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This was a nice audiobook. I knew the story having read it before many times. I wanted to have a comfort listen while at work. This is one of the first locked room novel, 1908. It possesses the flaws and clichés of the genre that it created. Rouletabille is still a wonderful hero. You can find the free audiobook at Librivox. #booked2019 #winter #publicdomain

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Cinfhen Not familiar with this book. Thanks for sharing 5y
writerlibrarian @Cinfhen it's Leroux's masterpiece along side the Phantom of the opera
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Cinfhen Wow!! Didn‘t even notice the author‘s name 🙈 5y
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writerlibrarian
writerlibrarian
LE MYSTERE DE LA CHAMBRE JAUNE | Gaston Leroux
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I'm starting my reading in French July with listening to Leroux's masterpiece at work while weeding books. I've read this a few times so I know the plot still it's so well done. I'm enjoying it. #audiobook #readinginFrenchJuly #librivox

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Bronte_Chintz
Bronte_Chintz
The Mystery of the Yellow Room | Margaret Jull Costa, Gaston Leroux
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Next book up on one of my goodreads book groups. Hoping it‘s as good as it sounds and includes some of that phantom of the opera drama! #gastonleroux #themysteryoftheyellowroom #classic #lockedroommystery

knittedgnome Welcome to litsy!! 7y
Bronte_Chintz @knittedgnome thank you! I can‘t believe I‘ve only just found it! 7y
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Bronte_Chintz @RaimeyGallant thank you! 7y
RaimeyGallant :) 7y
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JessNevertheless
JessNevertheless
Mystery of the Yellow Room | Gaston Leroux
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#yellow #readingresolutions 💛📒

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britt_brooke 🤩 7y
Tamra I want to read the tagged book! 7y
JessNevertheless @Tamra It‘s my “Y” for #litsyclassics! I haven‘t read it yet either but I‘m excited to! (edited) 7y
Tamra @JessNevertheless I just looked for this on BetterWorld and there are editions that aren‘t yellow. How weird is that? 🤨 7y
JessNevertheless @Tamra They‘re definitely missing a good opportunity to make an edition that stands out. I love the few yellow books I have on my shelves cause they‘re so different 7y
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