Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) gave up a career as a lawyer to become a journalist in his mid twenties. Though today he is best known for his novel The Phantom of the Opera (1910) during his lifetime his fame rested on his detective novels, The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908) and The Perfume of the Lady in Black(1909). Amongst the greatest novels of the golden age of crime fiction they introduced an eighteen year old journalist turned detective, Rouletabille, to the world.

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