| The Mystery Of The Yellow Room: A Magic Lamp Classic Mystery Contributor(s): LeRoux, Gaston (Author) |
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ISBN: 1882629698 ISBN-13: 9781882629695 Publisher: Magic Lamp Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1950 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its street date of March 11, 2050 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.67 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is novel, written by the same person who created the "Phantom of the Opera" is reportedly on of the best 'locked-room' mysteries written during the 1900's, and inspired Agatha Christie to write her first book. The sleuth is a young journalist named Joseph Rouletabille, who uses reasoning and logic to solve the crime of the scientist's daughter who is the victim of an attempted murder that takes place in a room with bars on the windows, a double-locked door, making it impossible for the perpetrator to have committed the crime and escaped. In a 1935 novel, John Dickson Carr, the master of locked-room mysteries, declared the Yellow Room Mystery to be the 'best detective tale ever written.' it was voted the third best locked room mystery of all time. Another one that may come close to this book is one of the Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries, "The Magician's Legacy" by Gene Grossman - also available from Amazon.com as item number 3332825. |