Name: The Secret of the Night

Author: Gaston Leroux
Year: 1912
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Mystery, Free books
Culture: France

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ISBNs:
9781603122382
9781533186331
1603122389
1533186332
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.
This book is part of the "Joseph Rouletabille" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"The Perfume of the Lady In Black"
First published in 1908
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"The Mystery of the Yellow Room"
First published in 1907
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