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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
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- about 267
- Category
- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
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From the opening
It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the
extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to the present
time he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had come to despair of
ever publishing the most curious of police stories of the past fifteen
years. I had even imagined that the public would never know the whole
truth of the prodigious case known as that of “The Yellow Room,” out
of which grew so many mysterious, cruel, and sensational dramas, with
which my friend was so closely mixed up, if, à propos of a recent
nomination of the illustrious Stangerson to the grade of grand-cross
of the Legion of Honour, an evening journal—in an article, miserable
for its ignorance, or audacious for its perfidy—had not resuscitated a
terrible adventure of which Joseph Rouletabille had told me he wished
to be for ever forgotten.
“The Yellow Room!” Who now remembers this affair which caused so much
ink to flow fifteen years ago? Events are so quickly forgotten in
Paris. Has not the very name of the Nayves trial and the tragic history
of the death of little Menaldo passed out of mind? And yet the public
attention was so deeply interested in the details of the trial that
the occurrence of a ministerial crisis was completely unnoticed at the
time. Now “The Yellow Room” trial, which preceded that of the Nayves
by some years, made far more noise. The entire world hung for months
over this obscure problem—the most obscure, it seems to me, that has
ever challenged the perspicacity of our police or taxed the conscience
of our judges. The solution of the problem baffled everybody who tried
to find it. It was like a dramatic rebus with which old Europe and
new America alike became fascinated.
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