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Unmask the Mystery Behind the Music! The Phantom of the Opera is a haunting tale of passion, obsession, and unrequited love set in the majestic Paris Opera House. Specially adapted for young readers, this illustrated abridged edition brings Gaston Leroux’s gothic classic to life through simplified text and captivating visuals. Follow the journey of Christine…
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…
“The Mystery of the Yellow Room” is presented here in a new, unabridged, and uncut translation. Written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, the celebrated author of “The Phantom of the Opera,” the work is one of the first and most dramatic locked-room mysteries ever published.
The hulkish Chri-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 Chri-Bibi discovers that his newfound freedom and fortune have come at a terrible price.
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…
LeRoux followed the template created by John Buchan in “Greenmantle” (1916), in which a heroic secret agent is conscripted to carry out an officially sanctioned dangerous mission in enemy territory. Fearless investigative journalist Joseph Josephin, aka Rouletabille, is sent into the heart of the Kaiser’s armaments factories to destroy a gigantic German super-weapon.
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