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The Mystery of the Yellow Room — Gaston Leroux

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux

  • Adventure
  • Book language: English
  • 204 pages

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a classic detective novel by Gaston Leroux featuring the young reporter Joseph Rouletabille. He investigates a mysterious crime committed in a locked room, and the story unfolds through clues, suspicion, and suspense. It is worth listening to for its early locked-room puzzle and the lively figure of the reporter-detective.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. The Mystery of the Yellow Room Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille Reporter
  2. Contents
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Chapter I. In Which We Begin not to Understand
  5. Chapter II. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time
  6. Chapter III. “A Man Has Passed like a Shadow through the Blinds”
  7. Chapter IV. “In the Bosom of Wild Nature”
  8. Chapter V. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces its Little Effect
  9. Chapter VI. In the Heart of the Oak Grove
  10. Chapter VII. In Which Rouletabille Sets out on an Expedition under the Bed
  11. Chapter VIII. The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson
  12. Chapter IX. Reporter and Detective
  13. Chapter X. “We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat—Now”
  14. Chapter XI. In Which Frédéric Larsan Explains How the Murderer Was Able to Get out of The Yellow Room
  15. Chapter XII. Frédéric Larsan’s Cane
  16. Chapter XIII. “The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of its Charm, nor the Garden its Brightness”
  17. Chapter XIV. “I Expect the Assassin this Evening”
  18. Chapter XV. The Trap
  19. Chapter XVI. Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter
  20. Chapter XVII. The Inexplicable Gallery
  21. Chapter XVIII. Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle between the Two Bumps on His Forehead
  22. Chapter XIX. Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn
  23. Chapter XX. An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson
  24. Chapter XXI. On the Watch
  25. Chapter XXII. The Incredible Body
  26. Chapter XXIII. The Double Scent
  27. Chapter XXIV. Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer
  28. Chapter XXV. Rouletabille Goes on a Journey
  29. Chapter XXVI. In Which Joseph Rouletabille is Awaited with Impatience
  30. Chapter XXVII. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory

and 4 more chapters

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