The Mystery of the Yellow Room [Joseph Rouletabille Mysteries #1]

THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM is the first of seven mysteries featuring amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. The crime takes place in an ancient French chateau, where the daughter of a famous scientist is found nearly murdered in a room locked from the inside. There is no apparent way for an assailant to have escaped the room. The young journalist Joseph Rouletabille soon becomes determine to solve this most puzzling of mysteries.