The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Locked-Room Mystery Perfected

Gaston Leroux

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486437250
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A woman is attacked in a room locked from the inside with no way out, and a young reporter solves it before the police do. Leroux was a court reporter himself and built the puzzle to be fair: everything needed is on the page. It is the locked-room story against which the others are measured. This edition is bound with a gallery of 58 plates of painting from 1816 to 1919, among them works by Jean Béraud, Camille Corot and Gustave Caillebotte.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Chapter I. In Which We Begin Not to Understand
• Chapter II. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time
• Chapter III. “A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds”
• Chapter IV. “In the Bosom of Wild Nature”
• Chapter V. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces Its Little Effect
• Chapter VI. In the Heart of the Oak Grove
• Chapter VII. In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed
• Chapter VIII. The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson
• Chapter IX. Reporter and Detective
• Chapter X. “We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat—Now”
• Chapter XI. In Which Frédéric Larsan Explains How the Murderer Was Able to Get Out of the Yellow Room
• Chapter XII. Frédéric Larsan’s Cane
• Chapter XIII. “The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm, nor the Garden Its Brightness”
• Chapter XIV. “I Expect the Assassin This Evening”
• Chapter XV. The Trap
• Chapter XVI. Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter
• Chapter XVII. The Inexplicable Gallery
• Chapter XVIII. Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead
• Chapter XIX. Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn
• Chapter XX. An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson
• Chapter XXI. On the Watch
• Chapter XXII. The Incredible Body
• Chapter XXIII. The Double Scent
• Chapter XXIV. Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer
• Chapter XXV. Rouletabille Goes on a Journey
• Chapter XXVI. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited with Impatience
• Chapter XXVII. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory
• Chapter XXVIII. In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always Think of Everything
• Chapter XXIX. The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson
• About the Author