The mystery of the Yellow Room
- Kategoria:
- kryminał, sensacja, thriller
- Cykl:
- Joseph Rouletabille (tom 1)
- Wydawnictwo:
- Wordsworth Editions
- Data wydania:
- 2012-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2012-01-01
- Język:
- angielski
The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of "Murder!" and revolver shots ring out. When her locked door is finally broken down by her father and a servant, they find the woman on the floor, badly hurt and bleeding. No one else is in the room. There is no other exit except through a barred window. How did the attacker escape?
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…
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