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| Mystery of the Yellow Room (Dedalus European Classics) (Dedalus European Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gaston Leroux
Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 136737
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 236
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1873982380
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781873982389
ASIN: 1873982380
Publication Date: October 23, 1997
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 Murder Mystery Masterpiece September 24, 2008
I don't believe the other reviews here do this wonderful book justice. "The Mystery of the Yellow Room," which I have just finished reading for the second time, is one of the most enjoyable, intriguing and ingenious crime novels ever written. The first time I was probably slightly preoccupied with getting to the explanation of the locked-room mystery but the second time I was able to take it all in more and appreciate the way the final solution is set up but also impossible to guess. There's a rich array of characters and the book is cleverly put together, occasionally breaking away from its first person narrator to tell sections of the story via newspaper cuttings or transcripts. This is a popular entertainment novel (albeit one that's 100 years old), but if it is so then it is as the very highest point of the 'low' art of the who-dunnit - or more especially 'how-dunnit?' (a question so perplexing it may make you forget to ask the first, and be doubly surprised). Here is one of those rare entertainments, like certain Hitchcock's movies, that you find even more entertaining when you return it.
Stick with it and you'll be rewarded September 20, 1998
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm not a mystery buff, but the premise of The Mystery of the Yellow Room is intriguing. How could someone commit a crime in a sealed room, then vanish without a trace? To find out the answer, you have to have patience; Leroux feeds you with little tid-bits - just enough to keep you reading - then at long last reveals everything. This is not a book in which the detective openly discusses his ideas and connections, but that makes the end more satisfying (by which I mean you'll be hitting yourself in the forehead, saying, "why didn't I think of that?"). It's not a light read, but follow through and it's worth it.
 1/2 Holmes and 1/2 Poirot, a decent mystery story August 23, 1998
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
Often wordy and requiring a little concentration, its style is reminiscent of the author's much more popular novel, Phantom of the Opera.
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