![]() ![]() What makes the crime so bewildering is the fact that it took place in a room locked from the inside with no apparent exit for the perpetrator.Īs Miss Stangerson is found alone lying on the floor, the assailant seems to have left significant clues behind, including a bloody mutton bone, a bloody handprint on the wall, and some old boots. She has been viciously attacked and almost killed in her room, or as the title suggests – the yellow room. In the focus of the crime is none other than professor Stangerson’s daughter Mathilde. The mystery begins when Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter and amateur sleuth is sent to investigate a crime scene at the Château du Glandier, home to renowned chemist Joseph Stangerson. It is the first of a series of novels featuring the famous fictional reporter Joseph Rouletabille. The novel was initially published in the French periodical L’illustration, and was later published as a book in 1908. One of the first locked room mysteries, The Mystery of the Yellow Room focuses on a supposedly impossible crime which has been committed within a locked room. ![]()
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