3 books by Gaston Leroux
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Overview: Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, 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. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay.
Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L’Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. In 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war.
He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux’s contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe’s in America. Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, of a urinary tract infection.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Cheri-Bibi: The Stage Play by Gaston Leroux, M. Alevy, Marcel Nadaud, Frank J. Morlock (Translator, Adapted by)
I am one of those accursed souls whom fate pursues like a bird of prey. Whatever I may be, whatever I may do, whatever I may attempt, whenever I undertake to free myself from its yoke, I find myself entwined again in its merciless strands, which always casts me back into the Hell for which I was born. You, Cécily, were my only reason to live. Losing you, I will die and rid the world of a monster whose soul is now trapped in a body that is not his own!
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 France’s greatest popular novelist and feuilletoniste of La Belle Epoque, Gaston Leroux (1868-1927).
Rouletabille And The Mystery Of The Yellow Room (Joseph Rouletabille #1) by Gaston Leroux, Jean-Marc Lofficier (Adapter), Randy Lofficier (Adapter)
"The Yellow Room was as tightly shut as a safe," said Rouletabille. "There can be no question of an opening of any kind. The door was bolted, the window and the shutters were shut-not even a fly could have gotten in or out. And yet, the murderer escaped. Indeed, it’s a great, beautiful, and very strange mystery."
The Mystery of the Yellow Room is presented here in a new, unabridged and uncut translation by JM & Randy Lofficier, with 30 pages of original material translated for the first time.
It was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, the celebrated author of The Phantom of the Opera, and is one of the first and most dramatic locked room mysteries ever published.
It is the first novel starring the young crime-solving journalist Rouletabille and concerns a complex and seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal seems to disappear from a hermetically sealed room.
John Dickson Carr proclaimed The Mystery of the Yellow Room "the best detective tale ever written" and, in a 1981 poll of 17 famous mystery writers, it was voted as the third best locked room mystery of all time.
This edition includes a foreword by Beauty and the Beast author Jean Cocteau, an afterword about Rouletabille and The Return of Ballmeyer, an additional story guest-starring Arsène Lupin.
Contents:
- – Foreword by Jean Cocteau
– Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune (1907) by Gaston Leroux
– The Return of Ballmeyer, or Arsène Lupin Arrives Too Late, a short story by J.-M. & Randy Lofficier
– Rouletabille: A Genius for Good, afterword by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier
Rouletabille at Krupp’s (Joseph Rouletabille #6) by Gaston Leroux, Brian Stableford (Translator, Adapted by)
It’s quite simply a matter of saving Paris, my young friend. Do you hear, Rouletabille? Saving Paris!
In Rouletabille at Krupp’s (1917), Gaston Leroux followed the template created by John Buchan in Greenmantle (1916), in which a heroic secret agent is conscripted to carry out an officially-sanctioned dangerous mission in enemy territory. Here, it’s fearless investigative journalist Joseph Josephin, aka Rouletabille, who is sent into the heart of the Kaiser’s armaments factories to destroy the gigantic German super-weapon Titania, capable of annihilating Paris itself in a single shot.
The novel displays Leroux’s fascination with, and talent for, the bizarre. As a reflection of the imaginative concerns of the French in 1917 and the revised policy of wartime propaganda that took full effect in that year, it has a stark specificity and punctiliousness that are unmatched.
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