The mystery of the yellow room by gaston leroux originally written in french as le mystère de la chambre jaune in 1908 is the first book featuring the fictional reporter and amateur sleuth joseph rouletabille with the mystery of the yellow room gaston leroux who is best known for his novel the phantom of the opera popularized an entire subgenre of detective fiction named as.
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The first edition of the novel was published in 1908 and was written by gaston leroux.
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 in the periodical l illustration from september 1907 to november 1907 then in its own right in 1908.
The main characters of this mystery classics story are joseph rouletabille jean sainclair.
The book itself is a beautiful addition to the detective club series and with review quotes.
Gaston leroux 1868 1927 one of the first locked room mysteries the mystery of the yellow room focuses on a supposedly impossible crime which has been committed within a locked room.
The book itself is a beautiful addition to the detective club series and with review quotes.
The mystery of the yellow room was a book i had heard of but never read a short story in the foreign bodies collection from the british library which i read recently pastiched it to a certain extent and so i decided it was time to visit the original.
The mystery of the yellow room was a book i had heard of but never read a short story in the foreign bodies collection from the british library which i read recently pastiched it to a certain extent and so i decided it was time to visit the original.
Citation needed it is the first novel starring fictional reporter joseph.