About the book: 1990 / The novel "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" introduces Soviet readers to Rouletabille, the hero of a whole series of detective novels by the French classic of this genre, Gaston Leroux. Rouletabille continues the line of famous detectives - Edgar Allan Poe's Dupont and Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. A journalist by profession, Rouletabille uses his unique abilities to solve a crime that is incomprehensible in its mystery..