The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (1907) – Gaston Leroux Free Audiobook

Written by Gaston Leroux
Read by Simon Vance
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille Series, Book 1
Publisher: Tantor Media
Release date: April 2, 2009
Duration: 06:55:27

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux’s masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime. It is one of the classics of early-twentieth-century detective fiction.

The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of “Murder!” and revolver shots ring out. When her father and a servant finally break down her locked door, they find the woman on the floor, badly hurt and bleeding. No one else is in the room. There is no other exit except through a barred window. How did the attacker escape?

First published in 1907, this intriguing and baffling tale is a classic of early 20th-century detective fiction. At the heart of the novel is this enigma: how could a murder take place inside a locked room that shows no sign of being entered? The novel is also about the rivalry between the detective Frederick Larson and a young investigative journalist, Rouletabille, to solve the case. Larson finds a suspect who is put on trial, only to have him cleared by Rouletabille, who reveals in the most dramatic fashion the identity of the real murderer.

This atmospheric thriller is still a favorite of whodunit fans everywhere. John Dickson Carr, the master of locked-room mystery, named The Mystery of the Yellow Room as the “finest locked room tale ever written”