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The mystery of the yellow room

The mystery of the yellow room

Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927, author.
Book 2018

Breaking down her door in response to the sounds of a violent attack and a gunshot, Mademoiselle Stangerson's rescuers are appalled to find her dying on the floor, clubbed down by a large mutton bone. But in a room with a barred window and locked door, how could her assailant have entered and escaped undetected? While bewildered police officials from the Sûreté begin an exhaustive investigation, so too does a young newspaperman, Joseph Rouletab...

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Murder Investigation Fiction
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ISBN:
9780008167035
Edition:
Detective Story Club edition
Description:
239 pages ; 20 cm
Other Title:
Mystère de la chambre jaune. English
Notes:
"The detective club."
This Detective Club classic includes an introduction by John Curran, who discusses how the book impressed and influenced a young Agatha Christie, was lauded by genre giants including John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen and Julian Symons, and remains to this day one of the most effective and enjoyable locked room mysteries ever written
Translated from the French
Control Number:
2611089
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