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In Rouletabille at Krupp’s (1917), Gaston Leroux followed the template created by John Buchan in Greenamtle (1916), in which a heroic secret agent is conscripted to carry out an officially-sanctioned dangerous mission in enemy territory. Here, it’s fearless investigative journalist Joseph Josephin, aka Rouletabille, who is sent into the heart of the Kaiser’s armaments factories…
Journalist Joseph Josephin, aka Rouletabille, is an idealized projection of its creator, Gaston Leroux, and was originally conceived as a “rival” of Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin. He “borrows” his prodigious deductive powers from Auguste Dupin, M. Lecoq, Holmes and Hercule Poirot, and solves the mysteries he encounters using what he calls “the good bit…
Young engineer Raymond Ozoux, accompanied by his uncle, arrives in Peru to meet his fiancée, Marie-Thérèse. Meanwhile, descendents of the Incas are preparing a great feast during which a virgin will be sacrificed to the Sun, walled up alive in a secret temple. At the same time, a mysterious Inca bracelet is sent to Marie-Thérèse…
Paris, 1881. A mysterious wraith-like being is terrorizing the Opera, blackmailing its Directors and murdering those who dare challenge him. Young diva Christine Daae is abducted. Can her lover, Raoul de Chagny, assisted by the mysterious Persian, the only man to know the Phantom’s identity, uncover the secret of the tragic figure who lurks beneath…
The hulkish Chéri-Bibi, framed for a murder which he did not commit, escapes from Devil’s Island by having the dying Marquis du Touchais’ face grafted upon his own by a mad surgeon. But fate will not easily relinquish its prey and Chéri-Bibi discovers that his newfound freedom and fortune have come at a terrible price….
The Mystery of the Yellow Room is presented here in a new, unabridged and uncut translation by JM & Randy Lofficier, with 30 pages of original material translated for the first time. It was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, the celebrated author of The Phantom of the Opera, and is one of the first…
