Rouletabille has lost none of its charm ... or Leroux

He must really be pressed by the date, otherwise, he did not write. Gaston Leroux was one of those authors whose journalism went hand in hand with that of novelist. In 1907 appeared the first adventures of the famous journalist Rouletabille small, twenty years after the first of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes ... Gaston Leroux became, with his young hero, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle national, grounding bases of the detective novel in French.
An assassination attempt took place Glandier, near Epinay-sur-Orge, in the great house of the famous scientist Stangerson. The old professor was not the target, but his daughter, Mathilde Stangerson young lady courted preferring to devote his time to the work of his father. A case that could have been almost banal if the conditions of the crime had not been so complex! Indeed, Mademoiselle Stangerson was locked and double-locked in his room, closed windows ... How he has the killer could have committed the murder and escape? Police tramples ... This is a big challenge for the young a reporter Joseph Rouletabille who finds himself sent to the scene of the crime. Soon, some evidence put the boy on a contradictory way of that of the great detective Larsan, official investigator. But Rouletabille, after all, is not a police officer, and his methods of investigation have the right to differ. If, however, it was the good?
Gaston Leroux has left an important mark on the landscape of French literature. With him, it is the judicial novel, or police, to be born. The Mystery of the Yellow Room and adventures of Rouletabille, Phantom of the Opera, The Haunted chair ... so many classics whose intrigues and heroes have marked many youths.
The Folio edition Classics More Releases Final notebook full of very interesting documents and analyzes. Reconciliations with Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe and even Isaac Asimov are available.