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You will love this book if you enjoy puzzles with fair clues, sealed rooms, rival detectives, and a young hero who trusts his own reasoning.
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Four people throw themselves against a locked door while a young woman cries murder on the other side. The key is turned inside, a bolt holds the door, and the barred window stays shut. When the door breaks, the room holds a wounded victim, blood, heavy footprints, and no one else.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a detective novel by Gaston Leroux, a French journalist who first published it in 1907. It tells of an attack on Mathilde Stangerson at the Château du Glandier in October 1892. You get every clue the young reporter Rouletabille gets.
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- 1A scream behind a bolted doorFree
- 2A boy reporter takes up the case
- 3A secret phrase opens the château gates
- 4Inside the room that cannot be left
- 5Red meat, a Green Man and a reporter's gamble
- 6A cane, a double and a wrongly trusted friend
- 7A night watch, a drugged dinner and a death cry
- 8Reason is stronger than the evidence of the senses
- 9Secrets, silence and the cost of keeping them
- 10How Leroux tells the tale
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A scream behind a bolted door
The story opens with newspaper reports of a crime at the Château du Glandier, near Paris. Professor Stangerson and his daughter Mathilde work in a pavilion at the far end of the park. On the night of October 24 to 25, 1892, someone tries to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson in her bedroom.
The old servant Daddy Jacques tells his tale. At midnight Mathilde locks her door and slides the bolt. Half an hour later a cry of murder rings out, followed by two revolver shots. The professor and Daddy Jacques hurl themselves at the door, but it will not give. The window bars are untouched and the shutters are fastened from within. When the door breaks, Mathilde lies wounded, and nobody is hiding in the room.
The room offers bloody handprints, a stained handkerchief, and the footprints of heavy boots. The magistrate admits that one must believe in the Devil unless a hidden opening is found.
A problem is only strong when its facts are firmly fixed.
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Who’s who
- Joseph Rouletabille
- An eighteen-year-old newspaper reporter with a gift for reasoning, who wants to solve the Glandier mystery and clear an innocent man.
- Sainclair
- A young lawyer and Rouletabille's loyal friend, who tells the story and follows him through every step of the case.
- Mathilde Stangerson
- A brilliant scientist and the victim of the attack, who hides what she knows to protect her father.
- Professor Stangerson
- Mathilde's father, a renowned physicist working on the Dissociation of Matter, who swears he cannot explain what happened.
- Robert Darzac
- A Sorbonne professor and Mathilde's long-faithful suitor, who refuses to account for his movements and becomes a suspect.
- Frédéric Larsan
- The celebrated Sûreté detective, a master of footprints and method, who wants to prove his own theory of the crime.
- Daddy Jacques
- The old family servant whose revolver and boots are found near the crime, and who is devoted to his mistress.
- Monsieur de Marquet
- The examining magistrate, a playwright at heart, who loves a good mystery and fears its explanation.
About this edition
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- LengthAbout 66,700 words
- Reading timeAbout 4 h 40 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 11 other languages
Questions about Le Mystère de la chambre jaune
What is The Mystery of the Yellow Room about?
It follows a young reporter, Joseph Rouletabille, who investigates an attack on Mathilde Stangerson inside a locked bedroom in a château near Paris. Nobody can explain how the attacker got out, and a famous detective works against him.
Who is Rouletabille?
Joseph Rouletabille is an eighteen-year-old reporter whose nickname refers to his round, ball-shaped head. He solves crimes by pure reason, and the story is told by his friend, the lawyer Sainclair, who follows him through the case.
What is a locked-room mystery?
It is a detective puzzle in which a crime happens in a space that seems sealed from the outside. The reader must work out how the culprit came and went. This novel is one of the best-known early examples.
Is The Mystery of the Yellow Room a true story?
No, it is fiction by Gaston Leroux, first published in 1907. He used his experience as a court reporter to give it the feel of a real case, with newspaper articles, trial scenes and plans of rooms.
What does the phrase about the presbytery and the garden mean?
It is a line from a letter that deeply disturbs Mathilde Stangerson and Robert Darzac. The meaning stays hidden for much of the book, and it is the first sign that the attack is tied to a secret from the past.
Cite this edition
Leroux, Gaston. The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-mystery-of-the-yellow-room.
Leroux, G. (2026). The mystery of the yellow room. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-mystery-of-the-yellow-room (Original work published 1907)
Leroux, Gaston. The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-mystery-of-the-yellow-room.
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