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Introduced by Mark Valentine. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. The greatest French detective in his most fiendish case. Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux. Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist ? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room ? With the Surete s top sleuth vying against him, Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case. This classic work of French detective fiction was much admired by Agatha Christie. As a connoisseur of the detective story she said this was one of the best . Others would praise it even more highly than that.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Stick with it and you'll be rewarded,
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This review is from: Mystery of the Yellow Room (Dedalus European Classics) (Paperback)
I'm not a mystery buff, but the premise of The Mystery of the Yellow Room is intriguing. How could someone commit a crime in a sealed room, then vanish without a trace? To find out the answer, you have to have patience; Leroux feeds you with little tid-bits - just enough to keep you reading - then at long last reveals everything. This is not a book in which the detective openly discusses his ideas and connections, but that makes the end more satisfying (by which I mean you'll be hitting yourself in the forehead, saying, "why didn't I think of that?"). It's not a light read, but follow through and it's worth it.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Mystery of the Yellow Room (Dedalus European Classics) (Paperback)
I don't believe the other reviews here do this wonderful book justice. "The Mystery of the Yellow Room," which I have just finished reading for the second time, is one of the most enjoyable, intriguing and ingenious crime novels ever written. The first time I was probably slightly preoccupied with getting to the explanation of the locked-room mystery but the second time I was able to take it all in more and appreciate the way the final solution is set up but also impossible to guess. There's a rich array of characters and the book is cleverly put together, occasionally breaking away from its first person narrator to tell sections of the story via newspaper cuttings or transcripts. This is a popular entertainment novel (albeit one that's 100 years old), but if it is so then it is as the very highest point of the 'low' art of the who-dunnit - or more especially 'how-dunnit?' (a question so perplexing it may make you forget to ask the first, and be doubly surprised). Here is one of those rare entertainments, like certain Hitchcock's movies, that you find even more entertaining when you return it.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Who doesn't love a good mystery?,
This review is from: The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery & Supernatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) (Paperback)
I had great hopes for this book following the reviews I had read.
I was not let down. The story is well-paced, the plot is very well structured and the characters are mainly very well thought out. There were a few issues I had with this book though, I was not impressed with the idea that the character Rouletabille was a detective genius, it seemed a bit strange to have him only 18 years old. Not exactly credible, but it didnt change a great story, only my enjoyment of it. I wanted to give it 5 stars but I couldn't accept an 18 year old detective.
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