| The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective Contributor(s): LeRoux, Gaston (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603128166 ISBN-13: 9781603128162 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Like "The Mystery of the Yellow Room," "The Secret of the Night" is a Joseph Rouletabille mystery. In "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" fictional detective Rouletabille investigated a complex and seemingly impossible crime -- in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room! There've been so many locked-room mysteries since that it's become a subgenre -- but there are folks who believe Gaston Leroux invented the form. (We hate assertions like that. Have you noticed how often things turn out to have been invented by monks in the middle ages, or by prehistoric Chinamen, or seventeenth-century Englishmen? -- Heavy "sigh.") John Dickson Carr, the master of locked-room mystery, named "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" as the "finest locked room tale ever written" in his 1935 novel "The Hollow Man." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.06 lbs) 232 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Like "The Mystery of the Yellow Room," "The Secret of the Night" is a Joseph Rouletabille mystery. In "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" fictional detective Rouletabille investigated a complex and seemingly impossible crime -- in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room There've been so many locked-room mysteries since that it's become a subgenre -- but there are folks who believe Gaston Leroux invented the form. (We hate assertions like that. Have you noticed how often things turn out to have been invented by monks in the middle ages, or by prehistoric Chinamen, or seventeenth-century Englishmen? -- Heavy "sigh.") John Dickson Carr, the master of locked-room mystery, named "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" as the "finest locked room tale ever written" in his 1935 novel "The Hollow Man." |
Contributor Bio(s): LeRoux, Gaston: - "Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868 - 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantome de l'Opera, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is also one of the most famous locked-room mysteries ever." |