Published in 1907, The Mystery of the Yellow Room is widely considered one of the greatest locked-room mystery novels ever written. Gaston Leroux presents a seemingly impossible crime: a young woman is nearly murdered inside a room that was locked and bolted from the inside. Young journalist and amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille takes on the case and applies ruthless logical reasoning to unravel it.
The solution is both surprising and entirely fair, making this a landmark work in the history of detective fiction. Download this public-domain classic as a free EPUB and enjoy one of the genre’s greatest puzzles.