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Barton Leroux

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Main Idea: Gaston Leroux (Kilian)
I must crack this code, as how could a killer escape from a locked room? Oh, hello, I’m Gaston Leroux, renowned detective fiction author. I was born in Paris, France on May 6, 1868. I went to school in Normandy, and went to college in Paris. I graduated in law in 1886, when I inherited a large sum of money from my father. My lifestyle changed from then on, and I turned to leading a life of drinking and gambling. That all ended less than a year later, when I almost went bankrupt. From there, I started working as a court reporter, then a journalist, before leaving that in 1907 to write fiction novels. My two most famous works were Rouletabille And The Mystery of The Yellow Room, and The Phantom of The Opera.
I wrote my first book, “Rouletabille And The Mystery of The Yellow Room” in 1907. It was the first book in a series of detective fiction novels, with the series ending in 1922. It starred Joseph Rouletabille, amateur detective taking on his first case, a murder of the daughter of a noble, in the titular yellow room. The case seemed impossible, as the room had no windows, and the door was locked at the time of the murder, yet the killer escaped. I added complex and detailed diagrams of floor plans and paths in the book to …show more content…

This story would later be compiled into a full volume and translated a year later, and known as “The Phantom of The Opera.” It was uniquely written for my time, as it was based on an event that I covered as a journalist, where members of a revolt were being kept as prisoners in the sewers under a famous opera house, but exaggerated and made into a work of fiction. The book has been adapted many times, most notably the 1925 silent film, the 1986 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the less than stellar 2004 movie made by Joel Schumacher. The musical is still running even to this

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