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In den Kulissen der Pariser Oper geht ein Phantom um. Geschickt verbirgt es sich den Blicken der Menschen, und doch nimmt es Einfluss auf das Bühnengeschehen, denn dank seiner Hilfe wird die Sängerin Christine Daée zum Star des Ensembles. Als das abstoßend hässliche Phantom sich ihr offenbart, kommt erst ein großes Erschrecken und bald darauf die Liebe ins Spiel - und löst eine komisch-turbulente Lawine von Ereignissen aus. Auf Leroux' Roman g...

For years the Paris Opera House has been haunted by the Opera Ghost, a mysterious figure who has been tutoring the beautiful young singer Christine Daaé for reasons unknown. But when the Opera passes into the hands of managers who scoff at the phantom's demands, and Christine's childhood friend, the Viscount Raoul de Chagny arrives to claim her hand in marriage, the enraged phantom mounts a campaign of terror that threatens to bring down the O...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room at...

Excerpt from The Double Life I Was passing through the waiting-room of the Morning Journal on a certain evening last year when my attention was drawn to a man seated in a corner. He was dressed in black and his appearance was that of the deepest dejection. In fact upon his face I read the most melancholy despair. He was not weeping, his eyes were dry and almost expressionless and received the impression of exterior objects like motionless ic...

The greatest French detective in his most fiendish case. Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux.Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of...

First published in France in the periodical L'Illustration from Septemeber to November 1907, and then in book form in 1908, this is one of the first 'locked room' mystery crime novels and remains one of the most famous in the genre.

The story of the monster man whose horrible deformities cause fear and terror, his search for love and acceptance, and his haunting of the opera house in Paris is told in very simple language. Beautifully adapted, the story flows along so easily that readers will be immediately caught up in the tangle of events and emotions. McMullan conveys all of the anger, grief, joy, and love that make the phantom a truly believable character. Will attract...

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Monsieur, this box is yours. My friend, M. Theophrastus Longuet, charged me to bring it to you." With that he opened the door, went through it, and shut it behind him. I stared at the sandalwood box, I stared at the door, then I ran after the man. He had vanished. I had the sandalwood box opened, and in it I found a bundle of manuscripts. In a newspaper office one is used to receiving bundles of manuscripts, and I began to look through them ...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a classic locked room mystery featuring police detective Fredric Larsen and a young reporter Joseph Roulteabille. Roulteabille is an extraordinary man, strongly observant and gifted with a powerful logical, deductive talent he sets about resolving the mystery. A young woman is violently assaulted and left for dead in a room that has no windows and has been locked from the inside. When the door is broken open ...

The Phantom of the Opera revolves around Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All is well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents and he sees Christine singing on stage. The voice...

Young journalist and aspiring detective Joseph Rouletabille rebuilds events by including known facts and eliminated everything that is not a known fact, no matter how much it appeared to relate to the case. In The Secret of the Night, Rouletabille gets ensnared in a complex Russian plot.

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 story that has captured the imagination of readers for a century, this world-renowned gothic novel, the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running musical, is now available in this striking Centennial Edition, featuring a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

How could a crime take place in a locked room which shows no sign of being entered? Leroux's landmark tale of foul play and deception remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre.

The surviving Nihilists have condemned the Russian General Trebassof to death for the crimes he and his troops committed against the revolution. Three attempts on his life have failed, but the Czar is determined to keep him alive. The Czar assigns the redoubtable, French detective reporter, Rouletabille to the case. It quickly becomes apparent that one of the General's own retinue is in league with the assassins! Why?