GOTHIC CRIME MYSTERIES: The Phantom of the Opera, The Secret of the Night, The Mystery of the Yellow Room,The Man with the Black Feather & Balaoo. Gaston Leroux
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Gaston Leroux
GOTHIC CRIME MYSTERIES
Thriller Classics Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos & Edgar Jepson Illustrator: Charles M. Relyea
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Table of Contents
The Adventures of Rouletabille:
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
The Man with the Black Feather
The Adventures of Rouletabille:
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Chapter 1. In Which We Begin Not to Understand
Chapter 2. In Which Joseph Roultabille Appears for the First Time
Chapter 3. “A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds”
Chapter 4. “In the Bosom of Wild Nature”
Chapter 6. In the Heart of the Oak Grove
Chapter 7. In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed
Chapter 8. The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson
Chapter 9. Reporter and Detective
Chapter 10. “We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat—Now”
Chapter 12. Frederic Larsan’s Cane
Chapter 13. “The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm, Nor the Garden Its Brightness”
Chapter 14. “I Expect the Assassin This Evening”
Chapter 16. Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter
Chapter 17. The Inexplicable Gallery
Chapter 18. Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead
Chapter 19. Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn
Chapter 20. An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson
Chapter 22. The Incredible Body
Chapter 24. Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer
Chapter 25. Rouletabille Goes on a Journey
Chapter 26. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited with Impatience
Chapter 27. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory
Chapter 28. In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always Think of Everything
Chapter 29. The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson
Chapter 1. In Which We Begin Not to Understand
It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to the present time he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had come to despair of ever publishing the most curious of police stories of the past fifteen years. I had even imagined that the public would never know the whole truth of the prodigious case known as that of The Yellow Room, out of which grew so many mysterious, cruel, and sensational dramas, with which my friend was so closely mixed up, if, propos of a recent nomination of the illustrious Stangerson to the grade of grandcross of the Legion of Honour, an evening journal—in an article, miserable for its ignorance, or audacious for its perfidy—had