The Opera of
Paris is the
scene of
this story
-- from the
Lyre of
Apollo on
top of its
seventeen
stories to
the lake
that lies
beneath its
five
cellars,
In the
process of
ransacking
the archives
of the
National
Academy of
Music, the
author was
struck by
the
coincidences
between the
phenomena
ascribed to
the
legendary
opera ghost
and the
mysterious
conditions
that
attended the
kidnapping
of a famous
lyric
singer,
Carlotta and
thus forces
her to give
up her role
(Marguerite
in Faust)
for unknown
Christine
Daaé.
Christine
meets this
phantom (a
masked man)
in the
catacombs,
where he
lives.
What's his
goal ?
What's his
secret ?
There is
also the
disappearance
of the
Vicomte de
Chagny and
the death of
his brother
Count
Philippe
whose body
was found on
the bank of
the lake
that exists
on the Rue
Scribe side
of the lower
cellars.
In the
course of
the tale
dealing with
the weird
occurrences
of that
tragedy the
author shows
that the
ghost and
elusive
agent of the
crimes
committed in
the cellars
are the
same.
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Only
Mystery of
the Yellow
Room, The
The plot of
this
remarkable
story is so
intricately
woven and so
elaborately
developed
that the
reader's
attention is
positively
enthralled
from
beginning to
end.
For sheer
originality
and
ingenuity it
may be
reckoned as
one of the
best
detective
stories
since
Gaboriau.
Seldom does
a detective
story end
with so
total a
surprise,
which
nevertheless,
seems
logical and
natural.
It is worked
out with a
skill that
continually
keeps the
reader
puzzled and
expectant,
and is told
with
vivacity and
sparkle.
For the many
who delight
in following
the
intricacies
of crime and
the avenging
hand of
Justice,
this book
has rare
charms.
The
journalist
detective is
a rival to
Sherlock and
Raffles.
