The Mystery of the Yellow Room. The Spirits of the Lady in Black

Gaston Leroux — a classic of detective and mystical novels, the author of one of the most famous French works of all time — «The Phantom of the Opera». For over a century, films and series have been made and plays and musicals staged based on his books. This edition includes two of Leroux's novels about the adventures of reporter Joseph Rouletabille: «The Mystery of the Yellow Room» and «The Spirits of the Lady in Black». «The Mystery of the Yellow Room» is perhaps the most famous detective novel about a crime in a hermetically sealed space. An «impossible» crime — murder in a locked room — takes place in a castle near Paris. The police are at a dead end, guessing the motives of the criminal and how he managed to enter the room locked from the inside, and then disappear unnoticed. However, young reporter Joseph Rouletabille is convinced that there are no unsolvable mysteries… In the novel «The Spirits of the Lady in Black», which is a sequel to «The Mystery of the Yellow Room», Joseph Rouletabille engages in a duel with a sophisticated criminal who virtuously changes disguises.