The Adventures of a Coquette
Gaston Leroux
Irene de Troie, a star of the Comédie Française, tours South America and ends up crowned queen of a tribe deep in the Brazilian jungle. A light, comic adventure novel that shows a very different Leroux.
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The Phantom of the OperaA masked genius lives in the cellars of the Paris Opera and coaches a young soprano from behind the walls. The 1910 novel behind the Lon Chaney film and the musical, darker and stranger than both.
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A quiet Paris rope merchant discovers he is the reincarnation of Cartouche, the famous 18th-century bandit, and starts hunting for the treasure he buried two centuries ago. A comic fantastic novel in Edgar Jepson's 1912 translation, with the original illustrations.
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A husband becomes convinced that a famous painter is stealing his young wife's heart in her dreams, and sets out to find out how before he loses her. Leroux's Le Coeur cambriole, published in English in 1926, also known as The Burgled Heart.
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In Lima, a young woman takes a golden sun bracelet that marks her as a bride of the Inca sun god, and the last followers of the old cult come to claim her for their sacrifice. Adventure and the fantastic in the Andes, from 1915.
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A young woman is attacked in a room locked from the inside, and the attacker vanishes without a trace. Eighteen-year-old reporter Joseph Rouletabille takes on the police in one of the greatest locked-room mysteries ever written.
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