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The Secret of the Night

Gaston Leroux

出版	Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Limited, 2008-04
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Action & AdventureFiction / ClassicsFiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
ISBN	81320075149788132007517
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IciPPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Like "The Mystery of the Yellow Room," "The Secret of the Night" is a Joseph Rouletabille mystery. 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 middle ages, or by prehistoric Chinamen, or seventeenth-century Englishmen? -- Heavy "sigh.") John Dickson Carr, the master of locked-room mystery, named "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" as the "finest locked room tale ever written" in his 1935 novel "The Hollow Man."