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..".a strictly fair-play, by-the-book murder conundrum, brilliant, logical and down-to-earth. It is what Leroux does with this honourable, limited format that makes it so rich and strange. Taking advantage of the mechanical artificiality and unreality of this fictive world where violent death evinces no stronger emotion than curiosity and makes hardly a ripple in the pool of everyday life, he makes the realistic narrative background as bizarre as the plot it frames. This is what we're not used to, and what, 90 years later, makes this as compelling and crazy a nightmare as the Surrealists ever dreamed."
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the classics of early 20th century detective fiction. At the heart of the novel is the enigma: how could a murder take place in a locked room, which shows no sign of being entered?
..".a strictly fair-play, by-the-book murder conundrum, brilliant, logical and down-to-earth. It is what Leroux does with this honourable, limited format that makes it so rich and strange. Taking advantage of the mechanical artificiality and unreality of this fictive world where violent death evinces no stronger emotion than curiosity and makes hardly a ripple in the pool of everyday life, he makes the realistic narrative background as bizarre as the plot it frames. This is what we're not used to, and what, 90 years later, makes this as compelling and crazy a nightmare as the Surrealists ever dreamed."
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the classics of early 20th century detective fiction. At the heart of the novel is the enigma: how could a murder take place in a locked room, which shows no sign of being entered?
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