![]() Oh, I haven’t mentioned the content – right. If you add the weight of it clearly being the inspiration for John Dickson Carr et al, I would dispute anyone who says there is anything better in the locked room genre. So I dived into this one with bated breath…īloody hell, it’s good. It is skewed towards the ludicrous explanation for simple events – none more so that The Peacock Feather Murders aka The Ten Teacups… I’ll rant about the solution to that when I get round to reviewing it in my Merrivale bibliography. Well, first of all, I think the list is a bit off. So, is it the third best locked room mystery of all time? I admit, I was wary though, as I’m not particularly good with Victorian/Edwardian style prose – still scarred by O-level English Lit and Hard Times by Dickens. ![]() Well, the other day, I bought a Kindle – and what should I find for 77p but four books by Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow Room being one of them. Despite being the author of The Phantom of the Opera, Leroux, due to writing at the turn of the century – 1907 in this case – is very much out of print. ![]() A while ago, I got hold of a copy of Rim of the Pit and found it a fascinating read and I’ve always had it in the back of my mind to get hold of a copy of The Mystery of the Yellow Room. The third best locked room mystery of all time – behind The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr and Rim of the Pit by Hake Talbot – that’s what the professionals thought – in 1981. ![]()
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