Gaston Leroux

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The long-ago mysteries of the great opera house in Paris have never been explained. Why did so many terrible tragedies happen there? Why did everyone flee from it in fear? This gripping story about the "opera ghost" and the beautiful singer he loves launched one of the most popular musicals in Broadway history--and it serves up enough thrills, chills, and surprises to keep even the most reluctant reader fascinated.

Young engineer Raymond Ozoux, accompanied by his uncle, arrives in Peru to meet his fianc e, Marie-Th r se. Meanwhile, descendents of the Incas are preparing a great feast during which a virgin will be sacrificed to the Sun, walled up alive in a secret temple. At the same time, a mysterious Inca bracelet is sent to Marie-Th r se purporting to be a gift of the Sun to his future bride... The young girl is then kidnapped by the Incas and Raymond, his uncle and Marie-Th r se's father set out on a trek across Peru to free her while a revolution shakes the country... A suspenseful thriller in the vein of H. Rider Haggard by the creator of Rouletabille and the Phantom of the Opera.

Gaston Leru (1868-1927), plodovitejshij avtor, tvorivshij v zhanre fantastiki i detektiva, izvesten v Rossii kak avtor romana "Tajna zheltoj komnaty" (1908), gde sozdal obraz obajatelnogo syschika Zhozefa Rultabija. Rultabij prodolzhaet liniju znamenitykh detektivov - Djupona Edgara Po i Sherloka Kholmsa Konan Dojla. Zhurnalist po professii, Rultabij ispolzuet svoi unikalnye sposobnosti dlja razgadki nepostizhimogo v svoej zagadochnosti prestuplenija. Izdatelstvo, predprinjalo vypusk vsekh vosmi romanov ob obojatelnom syschike. Pered vami ocherednye dva romana tsikla.

Reproduction of the original: The Double Life by Gaston Leroux

Reproduction of the original: The Bride of the Sun by Gaston Leroux

Reproduction of the original: The Bride of the Sun by Gaston Leroux

Reproduction of the original: The Double Life by Gaston Leroux

5 ottobre 1892. Sul quotidiano Le Matin appare la notizia del tentato omicidio della figlia del professore Stangerson, messo in atto quella notte nel castello di Glandier. A indagare sul caso, il famoso ispettore Fr d ric Larsan e un giovane e brillante giornalista, Joseph Rouletabille, il quale, a dispetto del divieto di accesso alla stampa, riesce non solo a ispezionare la scena del delitto, ma anche a farsi ospitare nel castello per proseguire le ricerche. E, se i sospetti della polizia si focalizzano sul fidanzato della signorina, Robert Darzac, a seguito dei nuovi tentativi dell'assassino di portare a termine la sua missione, diviene sempre pi evidente che la stessa Mathilde Stangerson nasconde un oscuro segreto. In questo avvincente romanzo, definito da Dickson Carr "Il pi bel mistery mai scritto", Leroux mette in scena, fornendone un esempio che nessuno mai riuscito a eguagliare, il sommo problema dei romanzi polizieschi, ovvero il 'delitto della camera chiusa'.

"One of the most famous ghost stories that no one has actually read" (New York Times), The Phantom of the Opera is the first in the Haunted Library Horror Classics series presented by the Horror Writers Association. An unabridged edition of the novel that inspired the famous Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Deep beneath the Paris Opera House, a masked man lives in silence…Every night at the Palais Garnier, hundreds of guests sit on the edge of velvet-covered seats, waiting for prima donna La Carlotta to take the stage. But when her voice fails her, La Carlotta is replaced with unknown understudy Christine Daaé, a young soprano whose vibrant singing fills every corner of the house and wins her a slew of admirers, including an old childhood friend who soon professes his love for her. But unknown to Christine is another man, who lurks out of sight behind the heavy curtains of the opera, who can move about the building undetected, who will do anything to make sure Christine will keep singing just for him…This curated edition of The Phantom of the Opera, based on the original 1911 English translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, brings an iconic story of love and obsession to today's readers and illuminates the timeless appeal of Leroux's masterpiece.

Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux. Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. Who could have tried to murder Mademoiselle Stangerson, beautiful daughter of a famous radium scientist ? And how could they have entered and escaped from a completely locked and watched room ? With the Surete s top sleuth vying against him, Rouletabille is determined to prove only he can solve the case. This classic work of French detective fiction was much admired by Agatha Christie. As a connoisseur of the detective story she said this was one of the best . Others would praise it even more highly than that. We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our entire classical books are the original works. To ensure high quality products, all the titles are chosen carefully by our staff. We hope you enjoy this classic.

"Prizrak Opery". Odno iz samykh jarkikh javlenij massovoj kultury XX, a potom i XXI veka. Ego mnozhestvo raz ekranizirovali, emu posvjaschali besschetnye rok-kompozitsii, ballady i albomy... I, navernoe, net cheloveka, kotoryj by ni razu v zhizni ne slyshal ili ne smotrel napisannogo po ego motivam genialnogo mjuzikla Endrju Llojda Uebbera. So dnja pervoj publikatsii "Prizraka Opery" proshlo uzhe bolshe stoletija, a tainstvennaja i mrachnaja istorija junoj opernoj pevitsy Kristiny, blagorodnogo vikonta Raulja i zhestokogo i neschastnogo genija po prozvischu "Prizrak Opery" po-prezhnemu ostaetsja odnim iz kultovykh proizvedenij v zhanre "goticheskogo romana".

She is singing tonight to bring the chandelier down A famed Paris opera house is said to be haunted by a masked entity known locally as The Opera Ghost, or more colloquially, The Phantom of the Opera. When the lead singer at this opera house falls ill, Christine Daa seizes the opportunity to take the spotlight. But the rumors of the masked phantom never cease, and soon after Christine takes stage, murder and mystery begin to plague the opera house. Who is the masked man stalking the nightly performances, and how does he maneuver so adeptly through the opera house?

Equal parts romance and gothic novel, this engrossing tale of unrequited love, musical genius, and physical deformity has been the basis for many a film, television, radio, and stage adaptation, including the immensely popular Broadway musical. Since the novel's publication in 1910, Erik and his mask have become true pop culture icons, and the tortured genius' tragic story continues to captivate the hearts of readers.

"The Mystery of the Yellow Room" is one of the first locked-room mystery crime fiction novels. It is the first novel starring fictional detective Joseph Rouletabille, and concerns a complex and seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floorplans illustrating the scene of the crime. The emphasis of the story is firmly on the intellectual challenge to the reader, who will almost certainly be hard pressed to unravel every detail of the situation. Also included in this edition is the thriller novel "The Secret of the Night". Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fant me de l'Op ra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is also one of the most famous locked-room mysteries ever.

"One evening last year I perceived in the waiting-room of my newspaper, Le Matin, a man dressed in black, his face heavy with the darkest despair, whose dry, dead eyes seemed to receive the images of things like unmoving mirrors. He was seated; and there rested on his knees a sandalwood box inlaid with polished steel. An office-boy told me that he had sat there motionless, silent, awaiting my coming, for three mortal hours." (Extract) Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera, which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is also one of the most famous locked-room mysteries ever.

"Prizrak Opery". Odno iz samykh jarkikh javlenij massovoj kultury XX, a potom i XXI veka. Ego mnozhestvo raz ekranizirovali, emu posvjaschali besschetnye rok-kompozitsii, ballady i albomy... I, navernoe, net cheloveka, kotoryj by ni razu v zhizni ne slyshal ili ne smotrel napisannogo po ego motivam genialnogo mjuzikla Endrju Llojda Uebbera. So dnja pervoj publikatsii "Prizraka Opery" proshlo uzhe bolshe stoletija, a tainstvennaja i mrachnaja istorija junoj opernoj pevitsy Kristiny, blagorodnogo vikonta Raulja i zhestokogo i neschastnogo genija po prozvischu Prizrak Opery po-prezhnemu ostaetsja odnim iz kultovykh proizvedenij v zhanre goticheskogo romana.