Gaston Leroux

The Perfume of the Lady in Black Gaston Leroux

Marc Notes: Translated from the French.; Joseph Rouletabille, the young journalist turned detective, is once more pitted against his arch-enemy, Frederic Larsan. The mysterious crime committed in the Square Tower tests even Rouletabille's powers of logic and deduction. Contributor Bio:  LeRoux, Gaston Gaston Leroux was a French journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, and is most famous for his acclaimed novel, The Phantom of the Opera. A student of law, Leroux turned to journalism after spending his inheritance on a lavish lifestyle. Over a decade of work as a court reporter and theatre critic for the L'?cho de Paris served as inspiration for his series of successful detective novels featuring Joseph Rouletabille, an amateur sleuth, and Leroux's contributions to the French detective genre are considered as significant as those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Leroux died in 1927. Contributor Bio:  Anonymous also known as Joseph Benner