The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux

⏱ 8 minMystery classic

A woman is nearly murdered in a room bolted from the inside, its windows barred, the attacker vanished into thin air. The boyish young reporter Joseph Rouletabille sets out to solve the impossible with nothing but the pure reason of the right end of his mind. One of the greatest locked-room mysteries ever written.

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