Rouletabille book 4. English translation of Le Chateau Noir. Rouletabille tries to help his wife save a scientist and ends up accused of murder. Rouletabille Mysteries: 1. Mystery of the Yellow Room 2. The Perfume of the Lady in Black 3. The Secret of the Night 4. The Phantom Clue (or The Slave Bangle) 5. The Octopus of Paris (or The Sleuth Hound) 6. Rouletabille at Krupp's 7. The Crime of Rouletabille (no English translation) 8. Rouletabille and the Gypsies (no English translation)"
Rouletabille book 4. English translation of Le Chateau Noir. Rouletabille tries to help his wife save a scientist and ends up accused of murder. Roule...
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a...
"Monsieur, this box is yours. My friend, M. Theophrastus Longuet, charged me to bring it to you." With that he opened the door, went through it, and shut it behind him. I stared at the sandalwood box; I stared at the door; then I ran after the man. He had vanished. I had the sandalwood box opened; and in it I found a bundle of manuscripts. In a newspaper office one is used to receiving bundles of manuscripts; and I began to look through them with considerable weariness. Very soon it changed to the liveliest interest. As I went deeper and deeper into these posthumous documents I found the...
"Monsieur, this box is yours. My friend, M. Theophrastus Longuet, charged me to bring it to you." With that he opened the door, went through it, and s...
