"One evening last year I perceived in the waitingroom of my newspaper, Le Matin, a man dressed in black, his face heavy with the darkest despair, whose dry, dead eyes seemed to receive the images of things like unmoving mirrors. He was seated and there rested on his knees a sandalwood box inlaid with polished steel. An officeboy told me that he had sat there motionless, silent, awaiting my coming, for three mortal hours." (Extract) Gaston Leroux (18681927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the Englishspeaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera, which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is also one of the most famous lockedroom mysteries ever.

Binding: Paperback;116 pages; Publisher: Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe; Classification: N/A; Weight: 287.38 g; Dimensions: N/A

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