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Gaston Leroux's landmark tale of foul play, deception, and unbridled ambition remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre.

The hulkish Chéri-Bibi, framed for a murder which he did not commit, escapes from Devil's Island by having the dying Marquis du Touchais' face grafted upon his own by a mad surgeon. But fate will not easily relinquish its prey and Chéri-Bibi discovers that his newfound freedom and fortune have come at a terrible price. After The Phantom of the Opera and detective Joseph Rouletabille, Chéri-Bibi is the third legendary hero created by one of Fra...

Experience for yourself the classic story of love, music, and murder which has captivated people for generations. When new managers take over the running of the Paris Opera House, they make light of warnings about a mysterious ghost who haunts the theater. But this Phantom is all too real, and attempts to ignore his demands have dangerous consequences. When a beautiful young singer becomes the object of fascination by both the Phantom and a ha...

Deep below the Paris Opera House lurks a secret. Who is the mysterious phantom who haunts the stars of the stage?

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868-1927) est un romancier français, connu surtout pour ses romans policiers empreints de fantastique. En 1918, avec notamment René Navarre, l'interprète du Fant?'mas de Louis Feuillade, et Arthur Bernède, il fonde à Nice la Société des Cinéromans. Son roman Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune (1907), chef-d'oeuvre d'ingéniosité qui inspirera les surréalistes, lui vaut le succès en 1908. Il continue à écrire des romans ...

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868-1927) est un romancier français, connu surtout pour ses romans policiers empreints de fantastique. En 1918, avec notamment René Navarre, l'interprète du Fant?'mas de Louis Feuillade, et Arthur Bernède, il fonde à Nice la Société des Cinéromans. Son roman Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune (1907), chef-d'oeuvre d'ingéniosité qui inspirera les surréalistes, lui vaut le succès en 1908. Il continue à écrire des romans ...

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868-1927) est un romancier français, connu surtout pour ses romans policiers empreints de fantastique. En 1918, avec notamment René Navarre, l'interprète du Fant?'mas de Louis Feuillade, et Arthur Bernède, il fonde à Nice la Société des Cinéromans. Son roman Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune (1907), chef-d'oeuvre d'ingéniosité qui inspirera les surréalistes, lui vaut le succès en 1908. Il continue à écrire des romans ...

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868-1927) est un romancier français, connu surtout pour ses romans policiers empreints de fantastique. En 1918, avec notamment René Navarre, l'interprète du Fant?'mas de Louis Feuillade, et Arthur Bernède, il fonde à Nice la Société des Cinéromans. Son roman Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune (1907), chef-d'oeuvre d'ingéniosité qui inspirera les surréalistes, lui vaut le succès en 1908. Il continue à écrire des romans ...

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In The Mystery of the Yellow Room fictional detective Rouletabille investigated a complex and seemingly impossible crime -- in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room! There've been so many locked-room mysteries since that it's become a subgenre -- but there are folks who believe Gaston Leroux invented the form. (We hate assertions like that. Have you noticed how often things turn out to have been invented by monks in the mi...

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A medio camino entre la novela de misterio y la novela de horror, El Fantasma de la Ópera se adentra en el fascinante mundo de los escenarios para extraer su inspiración de los misterios que se ocultan tras los telones y entre bambalinas. En ese mundo encontró Gaston Leroux el espacio, los artificios y los personajes de la gran tradición gótica: un edificio de la Ópera imposible (pasillos húmedos que desembocan en trampas mortales, un largo su...

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Abogado durante un breve periodo de tiempo en su juventud, luego avispado periodista de tribunales y finalmente escritor de éxito, GASTON LEROUX (1868-1929) es autor de las que son sin duda algunas de las obras más populares de la literatura francesa. Entre ellas destaca EL MISTERIO DEL CUARTO AMARILLO (1907), clásico de la literatura policiaca y de intriga, en la que su protagonista, el periodista Rouletabille ­perteneciente a la estirpe del ...

This novel - the classic French detective story - was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, once a reporter who covered the famous trials of his time. For sheer originality and ingenuity this story may be reckoned as one of the best tales since Gaboriau. How could a crime take place in a locked room which shows no sign of being entered? For the many who delight in following the intricacies of crime and the avenging hand of Justice, this is a favor...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868-1927) was a French journalist, detective and novelist. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opera, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating i...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

English translation of a mystery novel featuring the author's amateur detective, Joseph Rouletabille.

The Phantom of the Opera is the most famous work of French author Gaston Leroux. Far darker than the stories familiar to audiences of today from the phenomenally successful Broadway musical and the early Lon Chaney, Jr. film, Leroux's Fantom is a genuine murderer, and the story, a true Gothic murder/horror tale.Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, terrorizes the Opera Garnier (or Paris Opera House) by a successful multi-year blackmail plot. When ne...