 Cover of the 1908 first edition | |
| Author | Gaston Leroux |
|---|---|
| Original title | Le mystère de la chambre jaune |
| Language | French |
| Series | Joseph Rouletabille |
| Genre | Mystery fiction |
| Publisher | L'Illustration (in serial) Editions Pierre Lafitte (book) |
Publication date | 1907 in serial January 1908 in book form |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback), Audiobook |
| Pages | 236 (1998 paperback) |
| ISBN | 1-873982-38-0 (1998 paperback) |
| OCLC | 59584573 |
| Followed by | The Perfume of the Lady in Black |
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (in French Le mystère de la chambre jaune) is a mystery novel written by French author Gaston Leroux. One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it was first published serially in France in the periodical L'Illustration from September 1907 to November 1907, then in its own right in 1908.[1]
It is the first novel starring fictional reporter Joseph Rouletabille and concerns a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floorplans illustrating the crime scene. The story provides an intellectual challenge to the reader.
The novel finds its continuation in the 1908 novel The Perfume of the Lady in Black, wherein a number of the characters familiar from this story reappear.[citation needed]
- ^ Rees, Kate (October 2017). "'Nous avons une reconstitution à reconstituer': Re-enacting the Mystery of the Yellow Room". Romance Studies. 35 (4): 239. doi:10.1080/02639904.2017.1413851. S2CID 165756562.