The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux. 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... The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux - Free audio book summary by Stuart Bell. Read by LibriVox volunteers.
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