The Mystery of the Yellow Room

In Which We Begin not to Understand It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to the present time ...

In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time I remember as well as if it had occurred yesterday, the entry of young Rouletabille into my bedroom that morning. It was ab...

“A Man Has Passed like a Shadow through the Blinds” Half an hour later Rouletabille and I were on the platform of the Orleans station, awaiting the departure of the train which wa...

“In the Bosom of Wild Nature” The Château du Glandier is one of the oldest châteaux in the Ile de France, where so many building remains of the feudal period are still standing. B...

In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces its Little Effect Rouletabille and I had been walking for several minutes, by the side of a lo...

In the Heart of the Oak Grove We reached the château, and, as we approached it, saw four gendarmes pacing in front of a little door in the ground floor of the donjon. We soon lear...

In Which Rouletabille Sets out on an Expedition under the Bed Rouletabille having pushed open the door of The Yellow Room paused on the threshold saying, with an emotion which I o...

The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson Two minutes later, as Rouletabille was bending over the footprints discovered in the park, under the window of the vesti...

Reporter and Detective The three of us went back towards the pavilion. At some distance from the building the reporter made us stop and, pointing to a small clump of trees to the ...

“We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat—Now” The Donjon Inn was of no imposing appearance; but I like these buildings with their rafters blackened with age and the smoke of their hearths—t...

In Which Frédéric Larsan Explains How the Murderer Was Able to Get out of The Yellow Room Among the mass of papers, legal documents, memoirs, and extracts from newspapers, which I...

Frédéric Larsan’s Cane It was not till six o’clock that I left the château, taking with me the article hastily written by my friend in the little sitting-room which Monsieur Rober...

“The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of its Charm, nor the Garden its Brightness” A week after the occurrence of the events I have just recounted—on the 2nd of November, to be exact—I...

“I Expect the Assassin this Evening” “I must take you,” said Rouletabille, “so as to enable you to understand, to the various scenes. I myself believe that I have discovered what ...

The Trap (Extract from the Note-Book of Joseph Rouletabille) “Last night—the night between the 29th and 30th of October—” wrote Joseph Rouletabille, “I woke up towards one o’cloc...

Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter (Extract from the Note-Book of Joseph Rouletabille, continued) “I am again at the window-sill,” continues Rouletabille, “and once...

The Inexplicable Gallery (Extract from the Note-Book of Joseph Rouletabille, continued) “Mademoiselle Stangerson appeared at the door of her ante-room,” continues Rouletabille’s ...

Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle between the Two Bumps on His Forehead (Extract from the Note-Book of Joseph Rouletabille, continued) “We separated on the thresholds of our rooms,...

Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn It was not until later that Rouletabille sent me the Note-Book in which he had written at length the story of the phenomenon...

An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson “You remember me, Monsieur?” asked Rouletabille. “Perfectly!” replied Arthur Rance. “I recognise you as the lad at the bar. [The face of Rouleta...

On the Watch The act, which staggered me, did not appear to affect Rouletabille much. We returned to his room and, without even referring to what we had seen, he gave me his final...

The Incredible Body I bent in great anxiety over the body of the reporter and had the joy to find that he was deeply sleeping, the same unhealthy sleep that I had seen fall upon F...

The Double Scent I had hardly recovered from the surprise into which this new discovery had plunged me, when Rouletabille touched me on the shoulder and asked me to follow him int...

Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer Mademoiselle Stangerson had been for the second time almost murdered. Unfortunately, she was in too weak a state to bear the seve...

Rouletabille Goes on a Journey That same evening Rouletabille and I left the Glandier. We were very glad to get away and there was nothing more to keep us there. I declared my int...

In Which Joseph Rouletabille is Awaited with Impatience On the 15th of January, that is to say, two months and a half after the tragic events I have narrated, the “Epoque” printed...

In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory The excitement was extreme. Cries from fainting women were to be heard amid the extraordinary bustle and stir. The “majesty o...

In Which it is Proved That One Does not Always Think of Everything Great excitement prevailed when Rouletabille had finished. The court-room became agitated with the murmurings of...

The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson During the days that followed I had several opportunities to question him as to his reason for his voyage to America, but I obtained no more...

* The original text has no heading for Chapter XVII, despite being part of the same continuous excerpt as Chapters XVI and XVIII. This absence has been corrected.]...