The Mystery of the Yellow Room is an intrigue novel by Gaston Leroux. 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's novel is known as one of the most famous 'locked-room' mysteries ever.

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I: In Which We Begin Not to Understand

II: In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time

III: “A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds”

IV: “In the Bosom of Wild Nature”

V: In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces Its Little Effect

VI: In the Heart of the Oak Grove

VII: In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed

VIII: The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson

IX: Reporter and Detective

X: “We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat—Now”

XI: In Which Frédéric Larsan Explains How the Murderer Was Able to Get Out of The Yellow Room

XII: Frédéric Larsan’s Cane

XIII: “The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm, nor the Garden Its Brightness”

XIV: “I Expect the Assassin This Evening”

XV: The Trap

XVI: Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter

XVII: The Inexplicable Gallery

XVIII: Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead

XIX: Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn

XX: An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson

XXI: On the Watch

XXII: The Incredible Body

XXIII: The Double Scent

XXIV: Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer

XXV: Rouletabille Goes on a Journey

XXVI: In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited with Impatience

XXVII: In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory

XXVIII: In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always Think of Everything

XXIX: The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

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