The Phantom of the Opera

The first novel by Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) began to be published in a newspaper, being a famous journalist, reporter who had been to Spain, Morocco, and even covered the Russian Revolution of 1905. Leroux became a recognized master of detective fiction, created the detective Joseph Rouletabille, who rivaled Sherlock Holmes, and even founded a film company. The novels of the French writer (especially «The Mystery of the Yellow Room») fascinated the surrealists, and his works were admired by Sergei Eisenstein and Jorge Luis Borges. Mysterious events take place in the Paris Opera House: the disappearance of money, the vanishing of a singer, accidents with fatal outcomes. There are rumors that this is all the work of the mysterious Phantom...