The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels. It concerns a complex and seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room.

The crime takes place at the Chateau du Glandier, located in the forest, near the road leading to Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois and Montlhéry. The daughter of a famous scientist is found the victim of attempted murder.

The strange thing is the room is locked from the inside and there are no other ways in.

The window is barred, and the door is double bolted. No one, it seems, could have left the room. However, somehow, he did, leaving strange clues - a bloody imprint of a hand on the wall, a cap, and a hankerchief.

A police detective is involved but the young journalist Joseph Rouletabille is more concerned with unraveling the mystery by use of reasoning and logic.

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?

Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case.