Gaston Leroux
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One of the defining novels of the entire crime genre, Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room has inspired readers and writers including Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, and is now republished in hardback in the Detective Club series with a brand new introduction.
Breaking down her door in response to the sounds of a violent attack and a gunshot, Mademoiselle Stangerson's rescuers are appalled to find her dying on the floor, clubbed down...
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The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece of horror and romance. Written in serial form from 1909-1910 for Le Gaulois, it was released as a novel in 1910 and translated into English the following year. An immediate publishing sensation, the book was quickly adapted for the stage and screen, most famously for the 1925 silent film starring Lon Cheney and then in 1986 by Andrew Lloyd Weber, which became the longest running musical in Broadway...
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The long-ago mysteries of the great opera house in Paris have never been explained. Why did so many terrible tragedies happen there? Why did everyone flee from it in fear? This gripping story about the "opera ghost" and the beautiful singer he loves launched one of the most popular musicals in Broadway history-and it serves up enough thrills, chills, and surprises to keep even the most reluctant reader fascinated. The long-ago mysteries of the great...