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title: "The Mystery Of \"The Yellow Room\""
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# The Mystery Of "The Yellow Room"

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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent story but low quality book manufacturing
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the Netherlands on 2 December 2022*

The font is too small for comfortable reading and the margins too wide, so that one has to strongly bend the book to barely read the inner side.

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    A Classic Locked Room Mystery
  

*by V***E on Reviewed in the United States on 10 September 2017*

I understand that this is one of the first novels about a “locked room murder” to be written, although it is now a common theme. The book synopsis gives a very good outline of the story, so I will try not to repeat too much. The story is narrated in the first person by criminal lawyer Sainclair, who has formed an unlikely friendship with young reporter Joseph Josephine, nicknamed Rouletabille, meaning, I think “ball”, because he has a round head. We learn about the circumstances of the attempted murder of Mademoiselle Stangerson from an article in the “Matin”, a leading newspaper of the time (I wonder if the author copied this from Englishman, B. L. Farjeon, who used this device very cleverly in his 1884 novel “Great Porter Square”?)This mystery is replete with suspects, red herrings, and seemingly unsolvable enigmas – how did the would-be assassin escape from the almost hermetically-sealed yellow room? Mathilde Stangerson has worked with her father, Professor Stangerson, for most of her adult life, helping him in his field of radiography. She is now thirty-five and her engagement has recently been announced to M. Robert Darzac, a professor of physics at the prestigious Sorbonne. Rouletabille, although only eighteen years old, has been a reporter for almost two years, working for the “Époque’ newspaper and he has been given the case of “The Yellow Room”. He comes to Sainclair to ask if he will come to the Chateau du Glandier, home and laboratory of the Stangersons. Sainclair agrees and so begins the long and convoluted search for the truth. Frédéric Larsan, pre-eminent detective of the Sûreté, has also been assigned to solve this most peculiar case. The two, reporter and detective, agree on some points, but diverge sharply on others.There are more attempts on Mlle. Stangerson’s life, and a death, and the assassin always disappears into thin air, or so it seems. Rouletabille possesses a formidable intelligence and is convinced that he will discover who the assassin is, and how he always escapes. The author uses a variety of techniques in telling this story; newspaper accounts as I have already stated, (and another, later one in the ‘Époque’), examinations by the local Magistrate, M. de Marquet, accounts from the witnesses, and the narration of Saincair. There are some very helpful plans of the pavilion and the first floor of the Chateau (American second floor). There are a few beautifully descriptive passages that add to the atmosphere of the story and bring the surroundings into focus that also help.A man is arrested and the case is now world-famous. It has caught the imagination of everybody and all await the trial, eager to learn if the arrested man is, indeed, the culprit, how he escaped from the Yellow Room, and how he disappeared on other occasions. Two or three months later he is brought to trial, and at that trial, there is a most dramatic denouement that has the court in an uproar and seems almost too impossible to believe.The translator has done a marvellous job, and to me it read as if written in English. I have read many “locked room” mysteries, but this one is outstanding. Written in the style of the time (1908), it is wordier than modern novels, and has concepts of honour that some may decry, but personally, I prefer reading these old novels far more than I do modern ones.

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    Tightly-written mystery thriller - Kindle version loses it 1 star
  

*by J***P on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2014*

PREMISEIf you're considering getting this book, then it's pretty obvious you're after a "locked room mystery". In that respect, you will not be disappointed. What I will say, which won't spoil it for you, is that how it happened is not supernatural. I'm not a fan of locked room mysteries where the explanation requires ghosts and goblins - that's kind of cheating!WRITING STYLEThe book was written over 100 years ago, and it has had to be translated from the original French to English. The version I got for Kindle was a fairly easy read. However, there are more than a few words that troubled me - but fortunately it's just a few clicks away on the Kindle to get the dictionary definitions (all troublesome words were on the Kindle's dictionary - phew!). The writing style is kind of a little antiquated, but it's not difficult to read. Nevertheless, the style is slightly on the bombastic side; but that's no bad thing, as a good mystery needs strong story-telling prowess anyway.TYPOS/ERRORSThe Kindle version says the story takes place in 1802, which is incorrect - it takes place in 1892. And I noticed just 1 typo when reading, but I was speed-reading the novel so it's possible I might have missed any others. Nonetheless, the 1 typo I spotted didn't detract from the overall enjoyment of the story.PACINGThe story is well-paced. The reader is drip-fed snippets of information, enough to make you want to work out or find out who did it and how it was done. The conclusion is satisfying enough, and I can see why it's on many "must read" lists of locked room mysteries.KINDLE VERSIONThe reason for losing 1 star is that the two diagrams in the original book are reproduced incorrectly in the Kindle version. They are just a jumbled mess of letters and incongruent lines. I just did a Google search and found the diagrams (two floor plans - one each for the Chateau and the pavilion). The floor plans are necessary in order to follow the narrative, as the author (in my opinion) doesn't describe the immediate areas very well.OVERALLThe novel isn't all that long. I read it in two evenings, and I'm a moderately-paced reader. If you want a good puzzle to work out, then this might not be the right book for you. The 'puzzle' only makes sense once you have all the details, some of which is withheld until almost the end of the book. Nevertheless, I still worked out how someone had managed to attack the lady in the yellow room and then just vanish; but I didn't work out who did it (which to me doesn't matter in a locked room mystery!).

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