Mystery of the Yellow Room
Author: first_name: Gaston
last_name: Leroux
Language: English
Year: 1908

This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better known as the author of <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i>: prepare to feel the hairs standing up on the back of your neck... <br/>(Summary by Stuart Bell)