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The Mystery Of The Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures Of Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter

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I read this book not knowing what to expect. I had read many mystery books before this one so I was pretty good at figuring out who the culprit was and how the crime was committed. The Mystery of the Yellow Room was a different story. As I was reading I tried to work out how it was done and who did it but I was stumped and I can guarentee that whoever else reads this book will be stumped as well. Ending is a great twist. This is a great mystery and I also recommend the sequel The Perfume of the Lady in Black.

This is quite a wordy book but it is almost impossible to put
down. You have to run do what you have to do then run back and
continue. It,s that fast paced especially towards the middle of
the book. An 18 year old reporter has to figure the whole thing
out and he does a superb job. Of course now I have to find the
other two books of Leroux' to read. I hope he wrote more.
but not too many or otherwise I would never get anything done!

I usually stay away from protagonists who have almost super-human deduction and observation abilities. I prefer the hard work by the likes of Martin Beck and company to solve cases, but the Yellow Room proved to be a great specimen of the "locked room" sub-genre.

Same review as the one I wrote for The secret of the night, by the same author, as I bought both books at the same time.
I had a very good experience with the service from Amazon and I was amazed, that I found these books, as they are very dificult to find.
Thank you Amazon,
Agatha