The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2023
Language: eng
Subjects: Fiction; Detective and mystery stories, French--Translations into English; Fiction; Mystery
Description: <p>Mademoiselle Stangerson is attacked by an unknown assailant, who then escapes from her locked bedroom without being seen. Joseph Rouletabille, a bright young reporter, is drawn to investigate the mystery, trying to understand what really happened (and how!) before another attempt on her life is made.</p> <p><i>The Mystery of the Yellow Room</i> is an early “locked-room mystery” novel, and helped define it as a genre. <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie">Agatha Christie</a>, in her novel <i>The Clocks</i>, had her fictional detective Hercule Poirot describe it as a masterpiece. John Dickson Carr, frequently cited as the best mystery writer specializing in locked-room mysteries, named it as his own personal favorite example of the genre.</p>