The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mystery of the Yellow Room, credited to Gaston Leroux, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

This is a LibriVox recording of The Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux. Read by annise, Stuart Bell, Jc Guan, Ezwa, Simon Larois, Madera, Ted Nugent, O, Lars Rolander, J. M. Smallheer and Gloria Zbilicki. This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a ‘locked room mystery’, in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera: prepare to feel the hairs standing up on the back of your neck… (Summary by Stuart Bell)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room
• Author credits: Gaston Leroux
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 8:22:09

Catalogue topics

• yellow room
• detective
• mystery
• crime
• gaston leroux
• rouletabille
• police
• France

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - In Which We Begin Not to Understand — 21:17
2. 02 - In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time — 13:42
3. 03 - “A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds” — 21:17
4. 04 - In the Bosom of Wild Nature — 9:16
5. 05 - In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark... — 10:24
6. 06 - In the Heart of the Oak Grove — 27:31
7. 07 - In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed — 17:08
8. 08 - The Examining Magistrate Questions — 13:48
9. 09 - Reporter and Detective — 15:48
10. 10 - “We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat–Now” — 15:00
11. 11 - In Which Frederic Larsan Explains ... — 46:57
12. 12 - Frederic Larsan's Cane — 11:32
13. 13 - The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of its Charm, Nor the Garden its Brightness — 23:06
14. 14 - I Expect the Assassin This Evening — 11:29
15. 15 - The Trap — 26:27
16. 16 - Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter — 7:07
17. 17 - The Inexplicable Gallery — 15:03
18. 18 - Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead — 5:27
19. 19 - Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast... — 29:48
20. 20 - An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson — 12:10
21. 21 - On the Watch — 18:12
22. 22 - The Incredible Body — 7:33
23. 23 - The Double Scent — 7:32
24. 24 .- Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer — 17:42

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