The mystery of the yellow room based on a 19th century story by gaston leroux is currently thrilling london theatre audiences with its enticing blend of music romance and sizzling gothic melodrama.
The mystery of the yellow room jonathan creek.
Storyline stage magician lance gessler lives in a mansion known as metropolis that has a deadly history.
For the mystery of the yellow room is a locked room mystery so fiendishly difficult to solve that it regularly features on best crime fiction lists despite being over a century old.
When another victim succumbs to an ominous presence in the attic room it s up to jonathan to unravel the mystery.
The mystery of the yellow room 2003 an episode of jonathan creek features a stage adaptation of the novel and centres around a similar event happening to one of its actors.
Her room can not be opened from the outside but only from inside.
Plot summary plot synopsis.
First published in france in 1907 it was the debut crime novel from the pen of gaston leroux better known as the author of phantom of the opera.