Mystery of the Yellow Room (The first detective Joseph Rouletabille novel and one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels)

Mystery of the Yellow Room (The first detective Joseph Rouletabille novel and one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels)

By Gaston Leroux
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Length8h 18m

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Mystery of the Yellow Room (The first detective Joseph Rouletabille novel and one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux, is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels. It was first published in France in 1908. It is the first novel starring fictional detective 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 floorplans illustrating the scene of the crime. 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.

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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 20, 2013
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Mystery of the Yellow Room
16Chapter 15. The Trap
2Chapter 1. In Which We Begin Not to Understand
17Chapter 16. Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter
3Chapter 2. In Which Joseph Roultabille Appears for the First Time
18Chapter 17. The Inexplicable Gallery
4Chapter 3. “A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds”
19Chapter 18. Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead
5Chapter 4. “In the Bosom of Wild Nature”
20Chapter 19. Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn
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6Chapter 5. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces Its Little Effect
21Chapter 20. An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson
7Chapter 6. In the Heart of the Oak Grove
22Chapter 21. On the Watch
8Chapter 7. In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed
23Chapter 22. The Incredible Body
9Chapter 8. The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson
24Chapter 23. The Double Scent
10Chapter 9. Reporter and Detective
25Chapter 24. Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer
11Chapter 10. “We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat—Now”
26Chapter 25. Rouletabille Goes on a Journey
12Chapter 11. In Which Frederic Larsan Explains How the Murderer Was Able to Get Out of The Yellow Room
27Chapter 26. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited with Impatience
13Chapter 12. Frederic Larsan’s Cane
28Chapter 27. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory
14Chapter 13. “The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm, Nor the Garden Its Brightness”
29Chapter 28. In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always Think of Everything
15Chapter 14. “I Expect the Assassin This Evening”
30Chapter 29. The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson

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