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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
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We bring you this edition of The Mystery of the Yellow Room -Gaston Leroux's famous detective novel.
Published in 1907, The Mystery of the Yellow Room was France's reply to Sherlock Holmes. This novel ranks among the first "locked room" mysteries, in which a crime has occurred under seemingly impossible circumstances. The plot technique has since been imitated by other masters of detective fiction, including Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen and Dorothy Sayers.
* Illustrated with 30+ historical paintings and illustrations from 19th century France.
* Author/editor Alastair Gray has enhanced this with a new introduction and author biography.
* Other changes include adaptation of chapter titles and text from archaic Victorian to standard English.
This edition has been carefully edited to preserve the author's original work. Also features updated maps.
News of a strange crime spreads like wildfire in Paris. Someone has attempted to murder the daughter of a brilliant scientist. But nobody can explain how the murderer got in and out of the locked room of her isolated country home. Only Joseph Rouletabille, an impatient young journalist, has the genius to solve this crime. But can he match wits with a seemingly supernatural killer?
Published in 1907, The Mystery of the Yellow Room was France's reply to Sherlock Holmes. This novel ranks among the first "locked room" mysteries, in which a crime has occurred under seemingly impossible circumstances. The plot technique has since been imitated by other masters of detective fiction, including Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen and Dorothy Sayers.
* Illustrated with 30+ historical paintings and illustrations from 19th century France.
* Author/editor Alastair Gray has enhanced this with a new introduction and author biography.
* Other changes include adaptation of chapter titles and text from archaic Victorian to standard English.
This edition has been carefully edited to preserve the author's original work. Also features updated maps.
News of a strange crime spreads like wildfire in Paris. Someone has attempted to murder the daughter of a brilliant scientist. But nobody can explain how the murderer got in and out of the locked room of her isolated country home. Only Joseph Rouletabille, an impatient young journalist, has the genius to solve this crime. But can he match wits with a seemingly supernatural killer?
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868 - 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is also one of the most famous locked-room mysteries ever.
ISBN-13:
9780989331098
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.03.2014
Seiten:
200
Autor:
Gaston Leroux
Gewicht:
298 g
Format:
229x152x11 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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