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The Perfume of the Lady in Black (original 1908; edition 2015)

by Gaston Leroux (Author), Otto Penzler (Introduction)

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The suspenseful sequel to the genre-defining The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Set in a medieval castle on the Côte d'Azur, this classic locked room mystery reunites journalist-turned-detective Joseph Rouletabille; Mathilde Stangerson, daughter of a famed French-American scientist; and master of disguise Frédéric Larsan.

Stangerson and her sweetheart Robert Darzac have just married and taken up residence in the Square Tower of the Fort of Hercules when Larsan strikes again. The attack leaves Stangerson frightened and confused, not only because she thought her nemesis dead, but also because she cannot figure out how he entered and escaped her room without notice. Only one man is capable of matching wits with Larsan, but when Rouletabille arrives in the South of France to investigate, he finds himself drawn deeper into his own past and his memories of a mysterious woman in black.

Best known as the creator of The Phantom of the Opera, author Gaston Leroux takes the locked room mystery to terrifying new heights in The Perfume of the Lady in Black.

This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices
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Title:The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Authors:Gaston Leroux (Author)
Other authors:Otto Penzler (Introduction)
Info:MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (2015), 304 pages
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The second book in Gaston Leroux's series featuring journalist Joseph Rouletabille has some similarities to the first book, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, in that it too is a locked-room story (but the "room" is an entire fortress). I found it, like the first book, a little on the slow side, but this volume included much about Rouletabille's early history. ( )
  mathgirl40 | Sep 28, 2021 |
Please don't read this review if you have not read "The Mystery of the Yellow Room".

I got this via the Kindle, but it is not showing up on Goodreads except as a paperback book. I should have maybe passed this by once the introduction even said that this book was not as great as The Mystery of the Yellow Room. We have a sequel to that book with characters we have already met from the previous book.

Joseph Rouletabille and Sanclair are back. It has been two years since Rouletabille has solved "The Mystery of the Yellow Room." Now both men are present at the marriage of Mathilde Stangerson and Robert Darzac. They have put the past behind them and both feel comfortable getting married now that the person who was behind the events from "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" is now dead.

So as a reader we get a huge reveal regarding Rouletabille and his connections to some of the characters. I really found that hard to be believed. I still struggled on to keep reading, even after the author put himself in the novel and had him meet Rouletabille. But I threw in the towel when I got to the author trying to describe where everyone was headed and the multiple ways in and out of the place and none of it made any sense. Frankly the whole book premise didn't make sense. I totally skipped to the end just to see how it ended and thanked goodness that I did not force myself to keep reading. There is too much information in this one and not enough dialogue. We have Sanclair just telling us the readers everything. And Rouletabille feels like a totally different person in this one. I can see why this book was not well thought of by people. I know that there were subsequent mysteries starring Rouletabille, but I am going to pass on them. ( )
  ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 |
The Perfume of the Lady in Black is Gaston Leroux's second book focusing on the brilliant young reported Joseph Rouletabille who made his first appearance in The Mystery of the Yellow Room. I read that book because it was mentioned somewhere as one of the first locked-room mysteries, a genre that I love, and one that didn't depend on the existence of a secret passageway or some other such trickery. The Perfume of the Lady in Black--which is effectively a "locked fortress" mystery--delves deeper into Rouletabille's history with the mysterious title character and reunites many of the characters from the first book for the second round of a battle with a villain who was presumed dead. The story in this one asks the reader to accept some pretty outlandish notions, but I enjoyed it anyway and I am finding -- to my surprise -- that the melodramatic, all-seeing reporter is growing on me. The next book, which I believe is the last, supposedly embroils Rouletabille in a conflict between the tsar of Russia and socialist revolutionaries, so that should be fun. ( )
  fannyprice | Apr 3, 2018 |
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

The suspenseful sequel to the genre-defining The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Set in a medieval castle on the Côte d'Azur, this classic locked room mystery reunites journalist-turned-detective Joseph Rouletabille; Mathilde Stangerson, daughter of a famed French-American scientist; and master of disguise Frédéric Larsan.

Stangerson and her sweetheart Robert Darzac have just married and taken up residence in the Square Tower of the Fort of Hercules when Larsan strikes again. The attack leaves Stangerson frightened and confused, not only because she thought her nemesis dead, but also because she cannot figure out how he entered and escaped her room without notice. Only one man is capable of matching wits with Larsan, but when Rouletabille arrives in the South of France to investigate, he finds himself drawn deeper into his own past and his memories of a mysterious woman in black.

Best known as the creator of The Phantom of the Opera, author Gaston Leroux takes the locked room mystery to terrifying new heights in The Perfume of the Lady in Black.

This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices

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