The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter

This novel--the classic French detective story--was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, once a reporter who covered the famous trials of his time. (He also wrote THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.) Match your wits with his rival detectives--one amateur, one professional--as they try to crack the mystery. Mademoiselle Stangerson retires to bed in the Yellow Room. Suddenly revolver shots echo through the house and she screams for help. Her father and a servant run to the locked room where they find the wounded girl--alone. The only other exit, a window--barred. How had the assailant escaped?