| The Mystery of The Yellow Room Contributor(s): LeRoux, Gaston (Author) |
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ISBN: 150541492X ISBN-13: 9781505414929 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - International Crime & Mystery |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.63 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille is sent to investigate a criminal case at the Ch teau du Glandier and takes along his friend the lawyer Sainclair, who narrates. Mathilde Stangerson, the 30-something daughter of the castle's owner, Professor Joseph Stangerson, was found near-critically battered in a room adjacent to his laboratory on the castle grounds, with the door still locked from the inside. She recovers slowly but can make no useful testimony. Rouletabille meets and interrogates several characters: the castle's concierges Mr & Mrs Bernier, the old servant Jacques, an unfriendly inn landlord and a womanising gamekeeper, and begins a friendly rivalry with France's top police detective Fr d ric Larsan, who has been assigned the case... |