The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux

Description

Joseph Rouletabille, the youthful reporter whose logical brain built him a legend in The Mystery of the Yellow Room, is called to St. Petersburg when a bomb explodes in the garden of the Grand Duke’s favourite general. The victim’s own household expects an arrest within the hour, but Rouletabille, as always, is not satisfied with the convenient answer. He must move through a city stirring toward revolution, where police, nihilists, and courtiers all watch him with equal suspicion.

Leroux serves the ingredients his readers wanted: a locked-room-logic puzzle dropped into the middle of historical upheaval, a hero who reasons aloud in theatrical leaps, and a thickening intrigue that never stays where you left it. The revolution of 1905 provides more than colour; it supplies motive, menace, and a dozen plausible killers.

Why readers still come back to it

• The famous Rouletabille logic at full stretch against a background of real revolution.
• A detective story where the politics are never merely decoration.
• The atmosphere of a nervous, armed city delivered with Leroux’s theatrical flair.

About this DodaBooks edition

Reading comfort is the whole point of this edition: clean professional typesetting, a working table of contents, and thoughtful chapter flow for long sittings on any device. Buy once, download at once, and the mystery is in your hands before the kettle boils.