Now in a Vivid Press Edition . A woman is attacked in a locked room. The door is bolted from the inside. The windows are too small to pass through. There are no hidden exits. When the door is broken down, her attacker has vanished without a trace. It is one of the most perfect crimes ever committed — and one of the most perfectly constructed mysteries ever written. First published in 1907, Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room stands as the gold standard of the locked-room mystery, a novel so precisely engineered that even the greatest detective writers of the twentieth century — from Agatha Christie to John Dickson Carr — acknowledged they were trying to match it. Into the impossible puzzle steps Joseph Rouletabille, an eighteen-year-old reporter with a genius for logic and a gift for seeing what others overlook. What he uncovers will upend everything you think you know about the crime, the suspects, and the truth. Set against the vivid backdrop of Belle Époque France, this is a novel of misdirection, revelation, and razor-sharp reasoning — a masterwork that invented conventions the genre still follows today. This Vivid Press Annotated Edition presents the complete text with an original introduction placing the novel in its literary and historical context, exploring the life of Gaston Leroux and the enduring legacy of the mystery he created. Prepared for the modern reader, it is the ideal way to encounter — or rediscover — a genuine classic of crime fiction.