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The story begins with an investigation into some strange reports of an "opera ghost", legendary for making the great Paris opera performers ill-at-ease when they sit alone in their dressing rooms. Some allege to have seen the ghost in evening clothes moving about in the shadows. Nothing is done, however, until the disappearance of Christine during her triumphant performance.

The lights dim at the Paris Opera House. The exquisite Christine Daae enraptures the audience with her mellifluous voice. Immediately, Raoul de Chagny falls deeply in love. But the legend of the disfigured opera ghost haunts the performance, and as Raoul begins his pursuit of Christine, he is pulled into the depths of the opera house, and into the depths of human emotions.

A malicious spectre haunts the Parisian Opera house. This murderous fiend speaks through walls, abducts innocents through mirrors, and holds the opera management in a cruel state of hostage. But when this monster falls for the beautiful Christine Daae, his powers of attractive enticement and malevolent mayhem all come to the surface. Who can put an end to this reign of terror? Discover the wonders of Gaston Leroux's gothic thriller in a way that will tantalize the senses.

In a Paris Opera House, Chorus singer Christine Daaé develops a relationship with a disfigured Phantom, who she believes to be the Angel of Music, promised to her by her late father. The Phantom tutors Christine, but the relationship breaks down when the Phantom discovers Christine's love for her childhood sweetheart Raoul. Who will win Christine's heart and with what consequence?

Des événements étranges ont lieu à l'Opéra : le grand lustre s'effondre pendant une représentation, un machiniste est retrouvé pendu. La direction doit se rendre à l'évidence : un fantôme ou un homme machiavélique hante le théâtre. Certains affirment avoir vu le visage déformé de cet être qui ne semblerait pas être humain. Peu après, les directeurs de l'Opéra se voient réclamer 20 000 francs par mois et une loge de la part d'un certain "Fantôme de l'Opéra".

Eric possessed many truly brilliant and extraordinary abilities including musical genuis. Being outcast from society for his ugliness, Eric was forced to wander from one country to another. When in France, he worked at fairs demonstrating tricks and ventriloquism. Later he became a bricklayer and was engaged in building the Paris Opera House. Upon completion of the construction, Eric decided to hide from the world in the cellars of the Opera and turned this great building into his own empire.

In the cosmopolitan Paris of the 1880s, the new proprietors of the Opera House are amused to discover that their costly acquisition is said to be haunted. But their smiles quickly vanish as tragedy follows misfortune: a murdered stagehand, a fatal accident, a missing girl. Fearful tales of the Opera Ghost race through the corridors and dressing rooms of the theatre. And with good reason - for deep in the catacombs beneath the Opera House, something is stirring.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime. It is one of the classics of early twentieth century detective fiction.

Le Tsar de toutes les Russies est menacé par des empoisonneurs et des assassins invisibles, qui semblent le cerner sans cesse et s'en prennent à son entourage. Pour déjouer cette étrange machination, il n'y a que le plus célèbre et le plus malin des reporters : Rouletabille !

Ce roman fait suite au "Mystère de la chambre jaune". On y retrouve, autour de Roulletabille, les principaux personnages. Mathilde Stangerson et Robert Darzac, enfin mariés, se rendent en villégiature chez leurs amis Édith et Arthur Rance au château d'Hercule. Mais Larsan que l'on croyait mort réapparaît et terrorise Mathilde. Rouletabille, aidé de son fidèle Sinclair, enquête.

La guerre des Balkans vient d'éclater en Bulgarie. C'est pour cette raison que le journal "L'Epoque" a décidé d'y envoyer son meilleur reporter, Rouletabille. Ce dernier en profite pour revoir la femme dont il est éperdument amoureux, Ivana. La jeune Bulgare lui raconte comment ses parents et sa sœur sont morts par la main du terrible bandit Gaulow.

La porte de la chambre fermée à clef "à l'intérieur", les volets de l'unique fenêtre fermés, eux aussi "à l'intérieur", pas de cheminée. Qui a tenté de tuer Mlle Stangerson et, surtout, par où l'assassin a-t-il pu fuir de la chambre jaune ? C'est le jeune reporter Rouletabille, limier surdoué et raisonnant par "le bon bout de la raison", qui va trouver la solution de cet affolant problème.

Gaston Leroux is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera. However, he also wrote some excellent detective stories. In fact,Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. In this, his most popular mystery, rival detectives try to crack a case.

Gaston Leroux's phenomenal novel, which inspired the hit Broadway musical, remains one of the most original suspense stories ever written. Erik, a brilliant but hideously disfigured musical genius, lives in the basement of Paris's National Academy of Music, where he haunts the opera crowd in his mask and fancy clothes. A haunting tale of obsession, a touching story about internal beauty, and a top-notch detective drama, The Phantom of the Opera is a remarkable novel, narrated to perfection by Henry Butler.

Es ironico que de las decenas de obras que escribiera el novelista frances Gaston Leroux la que le ha dado inmortalidad es el clasico del horror llamado El fantasma de la opera, la historia de un artista desfigurado que se oculta en las catacumbas de la Opera de Paris para vengarse contra el mundo, hasta el dia que se enamora de una bella cantante, que cambia por completo el curso de su vida.

The actors, singers, and patrons of the Paris Opera House say that a ghost haunts the labyrinthine chambers beneath its stage. While there are those who laugh off such superstitions, they always do so nervously, in the bright light of day. Nearly everyone connected with the Opera House in any way has felt the phantom's vague, troubling presence. But beautiful, talented young singer Christine Daae will soon experience a terror far more acute than any vague feeling of unease.

Más de 25 horas de audiolibros: CORAZÓN INDIO, de Nieves Herrero; LA ESPOSA DEL SOL, de G. Leroux; EL ESCARABAJO DE ORO, de Edgar Allan Poe; y MANAOS, de Alberto Vázquez Figueroa.

Alors que Rouletabille et son épouse, la ravissante Ivana, se trouvent en villégiature à Deauville, la jeune femme est assassinée en même temps que son patron, le célèbre professeur Boulenger. L'attitude ambiguë des deux victimes, qui flirtaient ouvertement, amène rapidement la police à considérer Rouletabille comme le suspect numéro 1. Comment ce dernier parviendra-t-il à prouver son innocence ? Et surtout, en trouvera-t-il la force, alors qu'il souffre terriblement ? Sa femme a été tuée et l'avait peut-être trahi.

Something strange is afoot at the Paris Opera House. When staff and performers spot a skeleton dressed in dinner attire, tales of the opera house ghost begin to surface. The new manager dismisses the stories as overactive imaginations, but chaos ensues, and encounters with the phantom become increasingly frightening. Who is the mysterious phantom that haunts the theater after the crowds have left for the night? How can he enter locked rooms and get from place to place so quickly? What is his connection to the beautiful and talented Christine?

Joseph Rouletabille est hanté par une femme qui venait le visiter, enfant, au pensionnat et dont il conserve le souvenir obsédant du parfum. Tandis qu'il s'en ouvre à Sinclair, son fidèle acolyte, il apprend que son amie Mathilde Stangerson convolant en voyage de noces avec son mari Robert Darzac, est en danger. Il s'empresse de la rejoindre, craignant le retour de l'illusionniste et intrépide Ballmeyer.