The Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux
“How do you catch a phantom in a room with no way out?”
When a young woman is attacked inside a hermetically sealed room, reporter Joseph Rouletabille must solve the ultimate locked-room puzzle that defies all logical explanation. This seminal masterpiece of detective fiction challenges readers to spot the one clue that baffled the greatest minds in France.
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