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The outrageously complex and heart-breaking The Perfume of the Lady in Black, a sequel to The Mystery of the Yellow Room which revisits Rouletabille's first case and mischievously casts a very different light on its resolution and motivations. A masterpiece. Maxim Jakubowski in Time Out Weird science and supernatural agencies are adduced, conjuring up a powerful atmosphere of the same kind of unholy wonder one feels in the early films of Frankenstein. Kenneth Wright in The Herald

The outrageously complex and heart-breaking The Perfume of the Lady in Black, a sequel to The Mystery of the Yellow Room which revisits Rouletabille's first case and mischievously casts a very different light on its resolution and motivations. A masterpiece. Maxim Jakubowski in Time Out Weird science and supernatural agencies are adduced, conjuring up a powerful atmosphere of the same kind of unholy wonder one feels in the early films of Frankenstein. Kenneth Wright in The Herald

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Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) gave up a career as a lawyer to become a journalist in his mid twenties. Though today he is best known for his novel The Phantom of the Opera (1910) during his lifetime his fame rested on his detective novels, The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908) and The Perfume of the Lady in Black(1909). Amongst the greatest novels of the golden age of crime fiction they introduced an eighteen year old journalist turned detective, Rouletabille, to the world.

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