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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Adapted from The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) by Gaston Leroux
Brentano's 1908 translation - public domain; Project Gutenberg #1685 View source text ↗
Status
Complete
Length
20 chapters · 10 scenesAbout 1 hr 20 min total
Rating
TeenNo explicit content

A woman is attacked in a laboratory annexe locked from the inside, with barred windows and no exit anyone can find.

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About this story

You play Sainclair, a beginner at the Bar, following an eighteen-year-old reporter who intends to solve it before the Sûreté's best detective can. Twenty chapters of a locked room argued out in front of you, the professional and the boy reaching opposite answers from one floor plan.

Who you’ll meet

Rouletabille, Daddy Jacques and Larsan at the sealed door.

How it opens

A beginner at the Bar, you read the first Temps notice alone on October twenty-fifth;

next morning Rouletabille entered your Paris rooms with the fuller Matin.

Professor Stangerson's daughter lies near death

after an attack beside her father's laboratory.

The first notice scarcely tells us anything.

Nothing except the date, the place,

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