{"product_id":"2940013081352","title":"The Mystery of the Yellow Room","description":"CHAPTER I. In Which We Begin Not to Understand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the\u003cbr\u003eextraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to the present\u003cbr\u003etime he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had come to despair of\u003cbr\u003eever publishing the most curious of police stories of the past fifteen\u003cbr\u003eyears. I had even imagined that the public would never know the whole\u003cbr\u003etruth of the prodigious case known as that of The Yellow Room, out of\u003cbr\u003ewhich grew so many mysterious, cruel, and sensational dramas, with which\u003cbr\u003emy friend was so closely mixed up, if, propos of a recent nomination of\u003cbr\u003ethe illustrious Stangerson to the grade of grandcross of the Legion of\u003cbr\u003eHonour, an evening journal--in an article, miserable for its ignorance,\u003cbr\u003eor audacious for its perfidy--had not resuscitated a terrible adventure\u003cbr\u003eof which Joseph Rouletabille had told me he wished to be for ever\u003cbr\u003eforgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Yellow Room! Who now remembers this affair which caused so much ink\u003cbr\u003eto flow fifteen years ago? Events are so quickly forgotten in Paris.\u003cbr\u003eHas not the very name of the Nayves trial and the tragic history of the\u003cbr\u003edeath of little Menaldo passed out of mind? And yet the public attention\u003cbr\u003ewas so deeply interested in the details of the trial that the occurrence\u003cbr\u003eof a ministerial crisis was completely unnoticed at the time. Now The\u003cbr\u003eYellow Room trial, which, preceded that of the Nayves by some years,\u003cbr\u003emade far more noise. The entire world hung for months over this obscure\u003cbr\u003eproblem--the most obscure, it seems to me, that has ever challenged the\u003cbr\u003eperspicacity of our police or taxed the conscience of our judges. The\u003cbr\u003esolution of the problem baffled everybody who tried to find it. It was\u003cbr\u003elike a dramatic rebus with which old Europe and new America alike became\u003cbr\u003efascinated. That is, in truth--I am permitted to say, because there\u003cbr\u003ecannot be any author's vanity in all this, since I do nothing more than\u003cbr\u003etranscribe facts on which an exceptional documentation enables me to\u003cbr\u003ethrow a new light--that is because, in truth, I do not know that, in\u003cbr\u003ethe domain of reality or imagination, one can discover or recall to mind\u003cbr\u003eanything comparable, in its mystery, with the natural mystery of The\u003cbr\u003eYellow Room.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069656449264,"sku":"2940013081352","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013081352_p0.jpg?v=1763576127","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013081352","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}