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Gaston Leroux is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera. However, he also wrote some excellent detective stories. In fact,Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. In this, his most popular mystery, rival detectives try to crack a case.

Eric possessed many truly brilliant and extraordinary abilities including musical genuis. Being outcast from society for his ugliness, Eric was forced to wander from one country to another. When in France, he worked at fairs demonstrating tricks and ventriloquism. Later he became a bricklayer and was engaged in building the Paris Opera House. Upon completion of the construction, Eric decided to hide from the world in the cellars of the Opera and turned this great building into his own empire.

This 19th century French thriller tells of the mysterious Erik, grotesque and elusive "phantom," who hides himself from the world in the labyrinthine bowels of the Paris Opera and entices with his angelic voice the beautiful opera singer Christine. Her abduction prompts a dramatic search not only for her, but also for the truth about her strange captor.

The lights dim at the Paris Opera House. The exquisite Christine Daae enraptures the audience with her mellifluous voice. Immediately, Raoul de Chagny falls deeply in love. But the legend of the disfigured opera ghost haunts the performance, and as Raoul begins his pursuit of Christine, he is pulled into the depths of the opera house, and into the depths of human emotions.

The story begins with an investigation into some strange reports of an "opera ghost", legendary for making the great Paris opera performers ill-at-ease when they sit alone in their dressing rooms. Some allege to have seen the ghost in evening clothes moving about in the shadows. Nothing is done, however, until the disappearance of Christine during her triumphant performance.

La obra cuenta la historia de un misterioso personaje apodado como "El Fantasma" que vive en el edificio del Palacio de la ópera Garnier. El tenebroso protagonista vive atormentado por su deformidad y fealdad, siente una gran pasión por la música y lucha para satisfacer su pasión por la belleza. Así es como se enamora de la joven y bella vocalista Christine Daaé. Para conseguir a la joven, el Fantasma revive su pasado de inventor de trampas y mazmorras, y vuelve a ser un ser de tinieblas.

Gaston Leroux spiega in questa famoso romanzo, pubblicato nel 1910, tutta la sua passione per il mistero e i trabocchetti, già noti al pubblico nel "Mistero della camera gialla" (che fu pubblicato tre anni prima). Qui lo scenario è molto più importante: l'Opéra di Parigi, che contiene un mondo sotterraneo ignoto ai più, ove si trova persino un lago. E il leggendario fantasma sarà poi davvero un essere soprannaturale? L'archetipo del mostro e della bella viene riproposto in questo avvincente romanzo, insieme a note ironiche e romantiche che colorano di rosa il nero del mistero.

Un vero rompicapo poliziesco: un delitto commesso in una stanza ermeticamente chiusa. Leroux cita espressamente i suoi colleghi autori che hanno proposto rompicapi simili: Edgar Allan Poe e Arthur Conan Doyle. Il personaggio in grado di risolvere il mistero è profondamente diverso da Sherlock Holmes: è un giovane reporter di appena diciott'anni soprannominato Rouletabille, che, a fine romanzo, l'autore promette di far diventare il protagonista di altri suoi romanzi. Ma il romanzo è davvero ben congegnato e nessun dettaglio rimane privo di spiegazione.

En 1913 le journaliste Rouletabille s'est fait envoyer en Bulgarie par son journal pour rendre compte de la guerre des Balkans, car il est amoureux d'une jeune Bulgare rencontrée à Paris : Ivana, la nièce du général Vilitchkov. Dans le roman qui précède celui-ci il l'a délivrée du Château Noir où la tenait prisonnière l'ennemi de sa famille, Gaulow, devenu Turc sous le nom de Kara-Selim. Mais elle a maintenant un comportement bizarre qui déroute Rouletabille et risque de faire tomber aux mains des Turcs les plans de guerre de son oncle qui se trouvent dans le précieux coffret byzantin dont s'est emparé Gaulow sans savoir ce qu'il contient.

In the hollow of a terrible storm, four hunters meet a melancholy madman who offers them shelter. But has this man really lost his mind, or is he laboring under the burden of a terrible curse?

A man named Adolphe visits Leroux at his office at the Morning Journal and delivers to him a chest that was bequeathed to him by his friend Theophraste Longuet. Leroux begins investigating its contents and relates the very strange experience of Longuet. While visiting a famous prison, Theophraste Longuet, a retired rubber stamp manufacturer, is possessed by the spirit of Cartouche, a criminal who plagued Paris in the 18th century.

Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 1 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Carmilla, der Vampir" von J.S. LeFanu, "Das Amulett der Mumie" von Bram Stoker, "Die Familie des Vampirs" von A.K. Tolstoi und "Das Phantom der Oper" von Gaston Leroux.

In der Pariser Oper treibt ein Phantom sein Unwesen. Niemand kennt sein Gesicht, das stets hinter einer Maske verborgen bleibt. Die neuen Direktoren erkennen schnell, dass es sehr gefährlich ist, sich den Wünschen des Phantoms zu widersetzen. Als die vom Phantom protegierte Sängerin Christine Daaé ihrer Jugendliebe Raoul de Chagny wiederbegegnet, bahnt sich eine Katastrophe an. In den Katakomben unter der Oper kommt es zur Demaskierung ...

Des événements étranges ont lieu à l'Opéra : le grand lustre s'effondre pendant une représentation, un machiniste est retrouvé pendu. La direction doit se rendre à l'évidence : un fantôme ou un homme machiavélique nommé Erik hante le théâtre. Certains affirment avoir vu le visage déformé de cet être qui ne semblerait pas être humain. Peu après, les directeurs de l'Opéra se voient réclamer 20 000 francs par mois de la part d'un certain « Fantôme de l'Opéra » qui exige aussi que la loge numéro 5 lui soit réservée.

Three young men are caught by a storm and are offered shelter by a strange man. Something about him is very disturbing and they are about to find out what it is. Their host claims that he has made a pact with the Devil and can't get himself out of the deal. Is he going crazy or he is telling the truth? If it is the truth, can the three visitors help the poor man? Find out in Leroux’s "In Letters of Fire". B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories.

Esta obra que le supuso un abrumador éxito en las letras a su autor, Gaston Leroux, hasta el punto de inaugurar su propio subgénero literario: el misterio de la habitación cerrada. Asistimos a la investigación del intento de asesinato contra Mathilde Stangerson, con una particularidad: la víctima se encontraba sola en una habitación cerrada por dentro. La caza por encontrar al agresor se convertirá en un juego de ingenio en el que el lector deberá participar de forma activa. Un divertidísimo y estimulante clásico de la novela policiaca.

“Misterio del cuarto amarillo" es clásico de la literatura policiaca y de intriga en la que su protagonista, el periodista Rouletabille se ve enfrentado al reto de despejar un enigma aparentemente irresoluble, un crimen contra Mathilde Stangerson, hija soltera y ya mayor de un científico, el doctor Stangerson. Los hechos ocurrieron en el castillo del Glandier un edificio muy antiguo y una habitación cerrada escuchar los gritos de auxilio de la víctima desde su interior, disparos, ruidos de golpes y muebles que se caen, pero nadie puede entrar a socorrer a la joven que está siendo atacada.

Poor little Christine’s father dies and she is left to be raised by a protective angel in the Paris Opera House. After some time she begins hearing a voice who teaches her how to sing. Christine grows to be a magnificent singer with a beautiful voice. One day her childhood friend visits the Opera and he falls in love with her. The phantom who taught Christine to sing and who was imperceptibly by her side, gets jealous and things go out of control.

Marco Todisco legge Il mistero della camera gialla di Gaston Leroux, un audiolibro della collana Anche i giovani leggono i classici, con cui Audiolibri Salani propone grandi classici della letteratura internazionale interpretati da celebri volti giovani in una chiave moderna e coinvolgente. Un classico che Agatha Christie definì “un capolavoro” del genere giallo costruito intorno a un omicidio commesso all’interno di una camera chiusa ermeticamente.

A baffling series of incidents at the majestic Paris Opera sparks frightening rumors about a mysterious opera ghost. Performers are ill-at-ease when they sit alone in their dressing rooms, alleging to have seen the enigma in evening clothes moving about in the shadows. Then a young and beautiful prima donna is visited by a masked "Angel of Music" who teaches her to sing and jealously demands her devotion—but with a price. With an increasing pattern of fear and violence, the phantom of the opera begins to strike, but always with a beautiful young performer at the center of his deadly desires.