Gaston Leroux — creator of The Phantom of the Opera — brought the same atmospheric intensity to his detective fiction. The Secret of the Night (1913) sends the young journalist-detective Rouletabille to Russia to protect a general from a nihilist assassination plot. An isolated country house, political intrigue, and a cast of suspects each with lethal motives: Leroux assembles the ingredients of a classic puzzle thriller and drives the tension to breaking point.
This is the fourth Rouletabille adventure and one of the strongest. Download the free EPUB for a thriller that moves with the pace of the best Edwardian adventure fiction.