Mystery of the Yellow RoomGaston Leroux
Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux · first published 2013
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I liked The Mystery of the Yellow Room better than Carr's when I was going through a locked-door phase. It's written well and unlike many of the others, the solution is pretty logical. And it has the best "when you've eliminated the impossible,…
on “How to commit murder inside a locked room” ↗…than Arthur Dent; now I'm much older. And now that we have computers with Genuine People Personalities, it's hard to remember what it was like in the Before Times. Recently finished Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908). For better or worse (no spoilers here), it kept me guessing.
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗…with a similarly well-worn setup. Precisely because it's well-worn territory, the low-hanging fruit has all been picked, and the art is in coming up with a punchline that feels new or original. "The Mystery of the Yellow Room," published in 1908 and considered one of the best of its time, might seem downright formulaic more than a century later, because so many variations have been published since. So the challenge for the…
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