Mystery of the Yellow Room (The first detective Joseph Rouletabille novel and one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels) E-BOOK

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux, is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels. It was first published in France in 1908. It is the first novel starring fictional detective Joseph Rouletabille, and concerns a complex and seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floorplans illustrating the scene of the crime. The emphasis of the story is firmly on the intellectual challenge to the reader, who will almost certainly be hard pressed to unravel every detail of the situation.

Table of Contents :

Chapter 1. In Which We Begin Not to Understand

Chapter 2. In Which Joseph Roultabille Appears for the First Time

Chapter 3. “A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds”

Chapter 4. “In the Bosom of Wild Nature”

Chapter 5. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces Its Little Effect

Chapter 6. In the Heart of the Oak Grove

Chapter 7. In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed

Chapter 8. The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson

Chapter 9. Reporter and Detective

Chapter 10. “We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat—Now”

Chapter 11. In Which Frederic Larsan Explains How the Murderer Was Able to Get Out of The Yellow Room

Chapter 12. Frederic Larsan’s Cane

Chapter 13. “The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm, Nor the Garden Its Brightness”

Chapter 14. “I Expect the Assassin This Evening”

Chapter 15. The Trap

Chapter 16. Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter

Chapter 17. The Inexplicable Gallery

Chapter 18. Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead

Chapter 19. Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn

Chapter 20. An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson

Chapter 21. On the Watch

Chapter 22. The Incredible Body

Chapter 23. The Double Scent

Chapter 24. Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer

Chapter 25. Rouletabille Goes on a Journey

Chapter 26. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited with Impatience

Chapter 27. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory

Chapter 28. In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always Think of Everything

Chapter 29. The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson


Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux ( 1868 – 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera.