The Mystery of the Yellow Room / The Perfume of the Lady in Black

At the center of the plot of “The Mysteries of the Yellow Room” is a “impossible” crime.

In the Glandier estate, near Paris, an attempt is made on a young lady—the daughter of a famous scientist. The victim survives by a miracle, but she can’t tell anything about the criminal. How did the killer get into the room if the doors were securely locked and the grille on the window was left untouched? It was as if he appeared from thin air and dissolved into thin air. But Joseph Rouletabille has his own—by no means mystical—version of what happened…

The collection also includes the second novel of the series—“The Spirits of the Lady in Black.”