<center>'The finest locked room tale ever written.'</center><center> — John Dickson Carr author of <I>The Hollow Man</I></center><P><center>“If I am the phantom it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”</center><centeR> - Gaston Leroux <I>The Mystery of the Yellow Room</I></center><P><P>Gaston Leroux is best known for writing the novel <I>The Phantom of the Opera</I>. 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. <p>In this his most popular mystery rival detectives try to crack the following case: Madamoiselle Stangerson retires to bed in the Yellow Room. <P>Suddenly revolver shots echo through the house and she screams for help. Her father and a servant run to the locked room where they find the wounded girl - alone. The only other exit a window is barred. How had the assailant escaped?<P>An Author's Republic audio production.