The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927)

This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera: prepare to feel the hairs standing up on the back of your neck...
(Summary by Stuart Bell)

Genre(s): Detective Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 In Which We Begin Not to Understand Jc Guan
00:21:16
Play 02 In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time Stuart Bell
00:13:41
Play 03 "A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow..." Jc Guan
00:21:17
Play 04 In the Bosom of Wild Nature J. M. Smallheer
00:09:15
Play 05 In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark... Stuart Bell
00:10:23
Play 06 In the Heart of the Oak Grove Jc Guan
00:27:30
Play 07 In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition... Stuart Bell
00:17:08
Play 08 The Examining Magistrate Questions... Annise
00:13:47
Play 09 Reporter and Detective Gloria Zbilicki
00:15:48
Play 10 "We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat--Now" Gloria Zbilicki
00:15:00
Play 11 In Which Frederic Larsan Explains How the Murderer... Jc Guan
00:46:56
Play 12 Frederic Larsan's Cane Stuart Bell
00:11:31
Play 13 "The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm..." Gloria Zbilicki
00:23:05
Play 14 "I Expect the Assassin This Evening" Xe Sands
00:11:28
Play 15 The Trap Jc Guan
00:26:27
Play 16 Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter Ezwa
00:07:06
Play 17 The Inexplicable Gallery Xe Sands
00:15:03
Play 18 Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle... Ezwa
00:05:27
Play 19 Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast... Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:29:47
Play 20 An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson Ted Nugent
00:12:10
Play 21 On the Watch O
00:18:12
Play 22 The Incredible Body Simon Larois
00:07:32
Play 23 The Double Scent Ezwa
00:07:32
Play 24 Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves... Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
00:17:42
Play 25 Rouletabille Goes on a Journey Ezwa
00:02:32
Play 26 In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited... Jc Guan
00:16:03
Play 27 In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His... (Part A) Jc Guan
00:28:57
Play 28 In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His... (Part B) Jc Guan
00:30:17
Play 29 In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always... Stuart Bell
00:08:31
Play 30 The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson J. M. Smallheer
00:10:46