This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera: prepare to feel the hairs standing up on the back of your neck...
(Summary by Stuart Bell)
(Summary by Stuart Bell)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
In Which We Begin Not to Understand
21:16 - Chapter 2
In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time
13:41 - Chapter 3
"A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow..."
21:17 - Chapter 4
In the Bosom of Wild Nature
09:15 - Chapter 5
In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark...
10:23 - Chapter 6
In the Heart of the Oak Grove
27:30 - Chapter 7
In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition...
17:08 - Chapter 8
The Examining Magistrate Questions...
13:47 - Chapter 9
Reporter and Detective
15:48 - Chapter 10
"We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat--Now"
15:00 - Chapter 11
In Which Frederic Larsan Explains How the Murderer...
46:56 - Chapter 12
Frederic Larsan's Cane
11:31 - Chapter 13
"The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm..."
23:05 - Chapter 14
"I Expect the Assassin This Evening"
11:28 - Chapter 15
The Trap
26:27 - Chapter 16
Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter
07:06 - Chapter 17
The Inexplicable Gallery
15:03 - Chapter 18
Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle...
05:27 - Chapter 19
Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast...
29:47 - Chapter 20
An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson
12:10 - Chapter 21
On the Watch
18:12 - Chapter 22
The Incredible Body
07:32 - Chapter 23
The Double Scent
07:32 - Chapter 24
Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves...
17:42 - Chapter 25
Rouletabille Goes on a Journey
02:32 - Chapter 26
In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited...
16:03 - Chapter 27
In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His... (Part A)
28:57 - Chapter 28
In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His... (Part B)
30:17 - Chapter 29
In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always...
08:31 - Chapter 30
The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson
10:46