The Mystery of the Yellow Room / Le mystere de la chambre jaune

A mysterious crime has been committed in the Glandier Castle near Paris. In a room with tightly closed doors and windows, a mysterious criminal attempts to take the life of the beautiful Mathilde Stangeron. What do the inhabitants of the... castle hide? And how did the villain manage to enter the bedroom locked from the inside, and then disappear unnoticed? While the police follow a false lead, reporter Joseph Josephen takes on the investigation.
«The Mystery of the Yellow Room» by Gaston Leroux is the first novel based on the «murder in a locked room» concept. This novel opened a whole genre in detective literature and inspired many directors and producers. «The Mystery of the Yellow Room» has been adapted into film six times! Young Agatha Christie, after reading this book, decided to start writing detective novels. The investigation of the «impossible» crime will appeal to fans of classic detective plots with unexpected twists.
The book presents the original text of the novel without cuts.