Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux (1868–1927)

Read by Jc Guan, Stuart Bell, J. M. Smallheer and 8 others

8h 22m · 30 chapters

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 The Phantom of the Opera: prepare to feel the hairs standing up on the back of your neck... (Summary by Stuart Bell)

Chapters

1. 1In Which We Begin Not to Understand21 min
2. 2In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time13 min
3. 3"A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow..."21 min
4. 4In the Bosom of Wild Nature9 min
5. 5In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark...10 min
6. 6In the Heart of the Oak Grove27 min
7. 7In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition...17 min
8. 8The Examining Magistrate Questions...13 min
9. 9Reporter and Detective15 min
10. 10"We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat--Now"15 min
11. 11In Which Frederic Larsan Explains How the Murderer...46 min
12. 12Frederic Larsan's Cane11 min
13. 13"The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm..."23 min
14. 14"I Expect the Assassin This Evening"11 min
15. 15The Trap26 min
16. 16Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter7 min
17. 17The Inexplicable Gallery15 min
18. 18Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle...5 min
19. 19Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast...29 min
20. 20An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson12 min
21. 21On the Watch18 min
22. 22The Incredible Body7 min
23. 23The Double Scent7 min
24. 24Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves...17 min
25. 25Rouletabille Goes on a Journey2 min
26. 26In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited...16 min
27. 27In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His... (Part A)28 min
28. 28In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His... (Part B)30 min
29. 29In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always...8 min
30. 30The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson10 min

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