Gaston Leroux Libri

How could a crime take place in a locked room which shows no sign of being entered? Nearly a century after its initial publication, Leroux's landmark tale of foul play, deception, and unbridled ambition remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre. This atmospheric thriller is still a favorite of whodunit fans everywhere. The greatest French detective in his most fiendish case. Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux. Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist ? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room ? With the Surete's top sleuth vying against him, Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case.

Joseph Rouletabille, giornalista investigatore, riceve un drammatico messaggioda Robert Darzac, che lo prega di raggiungerlo quanto prima e con la massimadiscrezione. Darzac è da poco sposato con Mathilde Stangerson e pare chequalcuno voglia distruggere la felicità dei due. Rouletabille riuscirà adistricare la complicata vicenda, ma non senza amarezza.

Dal cannibalismo agli omicidi più efferati, dal marito che ghigliottina la propria consorte alla povera fanciulla che scopre di aver sposato un boia, le sei storie macabre raccolte in questo volume costituiscono un eccezionale campionario di orrori, un autentico gioiello della narrativa macabra, firmato dall'autore dell'ormai classico Il fantasma dell'Opera .

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Phantom of the Opera, a Level 1 Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the past simple tense and some simple modals, adverbs and gerunds. Illustrations support the text throughout, and many titles at this level are graphic novels. The phantom lives under the opera house in Paris, and he does bad things. He loves Christine, but she saw his face. Now she can never leave him.

In this sequel to Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera, the young lovers, Christine and Raoul, leave the Phantom in his lair under the Opera House. After faking his own death to escape the authorities, the Phantom sets out to find Christine again, eventually following her to London. With a detective after the Phantom and Christine endangered when Jack the Ripper begins his killing spree not far from Christine's home, the Phantom must put his life at risk for his love.Will Christine -- desperate for song (which her husband, Raoul, has forbidden in his jealousy) -- finally open her heart to the Phantom as he desires?

One of the defining novels of the entire crime genre, Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room has inspired readers and writers including Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, and is now republished in hardback in the Detective Club series with a brand new introduction.