"Case of the Yellow House"

Author: (French) Gaston Leroux
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: In the dead of night, a tragic scream echoes from the "Yellow House" in the oak castle—it is the cry of Mademoiselle Mathilde Stanjonska. Upon hearing the sound, Mademoiselle's father, Monsieur Stanjonska, her fiancé, D'Alazard, along with two servants, break into the small, locked room. They find Mademoiselle lying in a pool of blood, barely breathing, while the murderer has vanished without a trace. But what puzzles them is that after the "Yellow House" case, the murderer risks capture to sneak back into Mademoiselle's bedroom—and it is Mademoiselle herself who opens the door for him. So, who is the real murderer? It turns out that behind this strange "Yellow House" case lies a hidden, little-known emotional entanglement. Like Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Mystery of the Yellow House" depicts a locked room crime scene, arranges a peculiar plot where a living person disappears, and is impossible to put down once you start reading.