Mint Editions (Crime, Thrillers and Detective Work)

Gaston Leroux

• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781513287966
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1908) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. The Perfume of the Lady in Black marked the second appearance of popular character Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter and part-time sleuth who features in several of Leroux's novels. Originally a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Often considered one of the best mysteries of all time, the novel has been adapted several times for film. Joseph Rouletabille is more than meets the eye. A reporter by profession, he spends his free time working as an amateur detective, using his journalistic talents to compile facts and track down leads. In The Mystery of the Yellow Room, he saved the life of Mathilde Stangerson, the daughter of a prominent professor, from the clutches of Ballmeyer, a violent criminal mastermind gifted in the art of disguise. Unbeknownst to her father, Mathilde had married Ballmeyer while living in America before realizing he had been living under a false identity. Now believed to be dead, Ballmeyer fades into history as Rouletabille, his assistant Sainclair, and Mathilde return to their lives. Shortly after leaving for her honeymoon with Robert Darzac, however, Mathilde contacts Rouletabille with terrifying news—their common enemy seems to have returned. The Perfume of the Lady in Black is a story of mystery and suspense from one of history's finest detective novelists. Joseph Rouletabille is without a doubt France's answer to Sherlock Holmes. This edition of Gaston Leroux's The Perfume of the Lady in Black is a classic of French literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• I. Which Begins Where Most Romances End
• II. In Which There is Question of the Changing Rumours of Joseph Rouletabille
• III. The Perfume
• IV. En Route
• V. Panic
• VI. The Fort of Hercules
• VII. Which Tells of Some Precautions Taken By Joseph Rouletabille to Defend the Fort of Hercules Against the Attack of an Enemy
• VIII. Which Contains Some Pages From the History of Jean Roussel-Larsan Ballmeyer
• IX. In Which “Old Bob” Unexpectedly Arrives
• X. The Events of The Twelfth of April
• XI. The Attack of the Square Tower
• XII. The Impossible Body
• XIII. In Which the Fears of Rouletabille Assume Alarming Proportions
• XIV. The Sack of Potatoes
• XV. The Sighs of the Night
• XVI. Discovery of “Australia”
• XVII. Old Bob’s Terrible Adventure
• XVIII. How Death Stalked Abroad at Noon Day
• XIX. In Which Rouletabille Orders the Iron Doors to Be Closed
• XX. In Which Rouletabille Gives a Corporeal Demonstration of the Possibility of “The Body of Too Many”
• Epilogue
• A Note About the Author
• A Note from the Publisher