Gaston Leroux 
Le parfum de la Dame en noir 

On retrouve dans Le Parfum de la dame en noir tous les personnages du fameux Mystère de la chambre jaune. Grâce à Rouletabille, le mariage de Robert Darzac et de Mathilde Stangerson a enfin eu lieu et la mort de leur ennemi est officiellement constatée.

A peine partie en voyage de noces, cependant, la belle Mathilde appelle Rouletabille à son secours. Leur impitoyable ennemi est réapparu ! La situation devient alors angoissante : disparition, crime… Le mystère s’épaissit. Le jeune reporter Rouletabille aura besoin de tout son flair et de son intelligence hors pair pour venir à bout de cette véritable ‘ histoire du diable ‘.

About the author

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay.

Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L’Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. In 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war.