The Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux
The Mystery of the Yellow Room was one of the first locked-room mysteries, published serially in France as Le mystère de la chambre jaune in L'Illustration from September 1907 to November 1907, and as a novel in 1908. Leroux's mysteries rival the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. We feature it on our collection of Mystery Stories.
Table of Contents
In Which We Begin Not to Understand
In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time
"A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds"
In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark...
In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed
The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson
"We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat—Now"
In Which Frederic Larsan Explains...
"The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm, Nor the Garden Its Brightness"
"I Expect the Assassin This Evening"
Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter
Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead
Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn
An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson
Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer
Rouletabille Goes on a Journey
In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited with Impatience
In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory
In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always Think of Everything
The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson
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