His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin.
Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera ( Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. "The finest locked room tale ever written." - John Dickson Carr, author of The Hollow Man. Written by the immortal author of The Phantom of the Opera, this atmospheric thriller is still a favorite of whodunit fans everywhere. At the heart of the novel is a perplexing mystery: How could a crime take place in a locked room which shows no sign of being entered? Nearly a century after its initial publication, Leroux's landmark tale of foul play, deception, and unbridled ambition remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre. How did the attacker escape?įirst published in 1907, this intriguing and baffling tale is a classic of early 20th-century detective fiction.
There is no other exit except through a barred window. When her locked door is finally broken down by her father and a servant, they find the woman on the floor, badly hurt and bleeding. The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of "Murder!" and revolver shots ring out.
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