Secret of the Night, The

By Leroux, Gaston

Book Id: WPLBN0002953754
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File Size: 262.91 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Secret of the Night, The
Author:	Leroux, Gaston
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Mystery
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Secret of the Night, The
Historic Publication Date:	1913
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Leroux, B. G. (1913). Secret of the Night, The. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective named Joseph Rouletabille. It is most likely that Leroux styled his hero after himself. Rouletabille was in the tradition of other great detectives who solved their cases by pure deductive reasoning. Much as Sherlock Holmes, who eliminated the impossible and concluded that whatever remained, however improbable must be the truth, Rouletabille included the known facts about the case and eliminated everything that was not a known fact, no matter how much it appeared to relate to the case. In The Secret of the Night, the names of the characters are often challengingly Russian and the plot involves, appropriately, both the Czar and the Nihilists. Introduction by Don W. Jenkins)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Mystery