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Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Detective Club Crime Classics) by : Gaston Leroux
Download or read book The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Detective Club Crime Classics) written by Gaston Leroux and published by Collins. This book was released on 1908 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Sûreté begin an exhaustive investigation, so too does a young newspaperman, Joseph Rouletabille, who will encounter more impossibilities before this case can be closed.
Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Detective Club Crime Classics) by : Gaston Leroux
Download or read book The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Detective Club Crime Classics) written by Gaston Leroux and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Yellow Room by : Gaston Leroux
Download or read book The Mystery of the Yellow Room written by Gaston Leroux and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-04-07T21:54:32Z with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mademoiselle Stangerson is attacked by an unknown assailant, who then escapes from her locked bedroom without being seen. Joseph Rouletabille, a bright young reporter, is drawn to investigate the mystery, trying to understand what really happened (and how!) before another attempt on her life is made. The Mystery of the Yellow Room is an early “locked-room mystery” novel, and helped define it as a genre. Agatha Christie, in her novel The Clocks, had her fictional detective Hercule Poirot describe it as a masterpiece. John Dickson Carr, frequently cited as the best mystery writer specializing in locked-room mysteries, named it as his own personal favorite example of the genre. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Book Synopsis THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM by : Gaston Leroux
Download or read book THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM written by Gaston Leroux and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous French author Gaston Leroux's present novel 'THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM' is a mystery novel which was first published in the year 1907. It is famously known as one of the first locked-room mystery novels and marks the genius of the author in this genre.
Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Yellow Room by : Gaston Leroux
Download or read book The Mystery of the Yellow Room written by Gaston Leroux and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery of the Yellow Room Gaston Leroux - "The finest locked room tale ever written." John Dickson Carr, author of The Hollow Man.If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me. - Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow RoomThe door is locked and the windows are barred--how did the attacker escape? In The Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux, a template for detective novels in the last hundred years was established. This novel is a fun mystery read that is sure to surprise and delight fans of whodunit fiction.
Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Yellow Room by : Gaston LeRoux
Download or read book The Mystery of the Yellow Room written by Gaston LeRoux and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux. Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist ? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room ? With the Surete s top sleuth vying against him, Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case. This classic work of French detective fiction was much admired by Agatha Christie. As a connoisseur of the detective story she said this was one of the best . Others would praise it even more highly than that.
Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Yellow Room by : Gaston Leroux
Download or read book The Mystery of the Yellow Room written by Gaston Leroux and published by Magic Lamp Press. This book was released on 1950-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is novel, written by the same person who created the "Phantom of the Opera" is reportedly on of the best 'locked-room' mysteries written during the 1900's, and inspired Agatha Christie to write her first book. The sleuth is a young journalist named Joseph Rouletabille, who uses reasoning and logic to solve the crime of the scientist's daughter who is the victim of an attempted murder that takes place in a room with bars on the windows, a double-locked door, making it impossible for the perpetrator to have committed the crime and escaped. In a 1935 novel, John Dickson Carr, the master of locked-room mysteries, declared the Yellow Room Mystery to be the 'best detective tale ever written.' it was voted the third best locked room mystery of all time. Another one that may come close to this book is one of the Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries, "The Magician's Legacy" by Gene Grossman - also available from Amazon.com as item number 3332825.
Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Yellow Room (SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic) by : Gaston Leroux
Download or read book The Mystery of the Yellow Room (SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic) written by Gaston Leroux and published by SeaWolf Press. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mystery of the Yellow Room (in 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 and then in book form. 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 floor plans illustrating the crime scene. The emphasis of the story is firmly on the intellectual challenge to the reader, who will almost certainly be hard pressed to unravel every detail of the situation. The novel finds its continuation in the 1908 novel The Perfume of the Lady in Black"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Murder in the Bookshop (Detective Club Crime Classics) by : Carolyn Wells
Download or read book Murder in the Bookshop (Detective Club Crime Classics) written by Carolyn Wells and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 50 in the Detective Club Crime Classics series is Carolyn Wells’ Murder in the Bookshop, a classic locked room murder mystery which will have a special resonance for lovers and collectors of Golden Age detective fiction. Includes a bonus murder story: ‘The Shakespeare Title-Page Mystery’.
Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Yellow Room by : Gaston Leroux
Download or read book The Mystery of the Yellow Room written by Gaston Leroux and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leroux was an early 20th century writer, detective and journalist. He is best known for writing The Phantom of the Opera. This mystery is one of the first "locked room mysteries." A locked room mystery is one in which a crime is committed in what seems to be impossible circumstances. In this instance the criminal disappears from a locked room.
Book Synopsis The Mystery at Stowe (Detective Club Crime Classics) by : Vernon Loder
Download or read book The Mystery at Stowe (Detective Club Crime Classics) written by Vernon Loder and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Collins in 1928, this was the first of 22 mystery novels by Vernon Loder, one of the most popular British mystery-thriller writers of his generation.
Book Synopsis The Perfect Crime: The Big Bow Mystery (Detective Club Crime Classics) by : Israel Zangwill
Download or read book The Perfect Crime: The Big Bow Mystery (Detective Club Crime Classics) written by Israel Zangwill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since.
Book Synopsis The Crime Club (Detective Club Crime Classics) by : Frank Froest
Download or read book The Crime Club (Detective Club Crime Classics) written by Frank Froest and published by Collins. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLASSIC CRIME. This Detective Story Club classic is introduced by David Brawn, who looks at how the The Crime Club inspired a turning point in British book publishing. You will seek in vain in any book of reference for the name of The Crime Club. Its watchword is secrecy. Its members wear the mask of mystery, but they form the most powerful organisation against master criminals ever known. The Crime Club is an international club composed of men, but they spend their lives studying crime and criminals. In its headquarters are to be found men from Scotland Yard and many foreign detectives and secret service agents. This book tells of their greatest victories over crime and is written, in association with George Dilnot, by a former member of the criminal investigation department of Scotland Yard.
Download or read book Trent's Own Case written by E. C. Bentley and published by Collins. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case. James Randolph is murdered early one evening and his body is found a few hours later. When the police arrive they discover that Randolph's safe has been ransacked and discarded wrapping paper litters his bedroom floor. Perhaps by chance or perhaps by design, Trent seems to have been the last person, other than the murderer, to see Randolph alive. But this is only one aspect amongst many which connect Trent with the murder and stimulate his interest: his friend Inspector Bligh is the detective in charge of the investigation, and then a long-time friend readily and perplexingly confesses his guilt. As much as he respects the abilities of Inspector Bligh, Trent's personal knowledge has him doubting the confession and intent on finding the truth.
Book Synopsis The Shop Window Murders by : Vernon Loder
Download or read book The Shop Window Murders written by Vernon Loder and published by Collins. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delight of Christmas shoppers at the unveiling of a London department store's famous window display turns to horror when one of the mannequins is discovered to be a dead body...
Book Synopsis Fools of Fortune by : William Trevor
Download or read book Fools of Fortune written by William Trevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distinguished list of literary masters. In this award-winning novel, an informer’s body is found on the estate of a wealthy Irish family shortly after the First World War, and an appalling cycle of revenge is set in motion. Led by a zealous sergeant, the Black and Tans set fire to the family home, and only young Willie and his mother escape alive. Fatherless, Willie grows into manhood while his alcoholic mother’s bitter resentment festers. And though he finds love, Willie is unable to leave the terrible injuries of the past behind. First time in Penguin Classics Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award
Book Synopsis The Grell Mystery (Detective Club Crime Classics) by : Frank Froest
Download or read book The Grell Mystery (Detective Club Crime Classics) written by Frank Froest and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves the murder of a notorious criminal in the home of a famous millionaire. But there are no clues, no evidence. The police are convinced that someone may have just committed the perfect crime.
