Secret of the Night

Gaston Leroux, creator of The Phantom of the Opera, reported from a Russia on the brink of revolution before he ever wrote fiction - and pours that eyewitness terror into this Rouletabille mystery. The boy-detective is summoned to St. Petersburg, where someone is slowly poisoning a general inside a locked villa, the household is beyond suspicion, and the secret police are the least trustworthy peo...