The Mystery of the Yellow Room

A woman is attacked in a locked room. The door is bolted from the inside. The windows cannot be passed through. There are no hidden exits. When the door is finally broken down, her attacker has vanished without a trace.

It is one of the most baffling crimes ever committed — and the novel built around it is one of the most brilliantly constructed mysteries ever written.

First published in 1907, Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room stands as the gold standard of the locked-room mystery. Into the impossible puzzle steps Joseph Rouletabille — an eighteen-year-old journalist with a razor-sharp mind and a gift for seeing what others miss. What he uncovers will overturn everything you think you know about the crime, the suspects, and the truth hiding in plain sight.

Set against the vivid backdrop of Belle Époque France, this is a novel of misdirection, revelation, and merciless logic — a masterwork that helped invent the conventions of detective fiction that writers from Agatha Christie to John Dickson Carr spent their careers trying to surpass.

This Vivid Press Edition presents the complete public domain text with an original introduction placing the novel in its literary and historical context. It is the ideal way to encounter — or rediscover — a genuine classic of crime fiction.

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