Gaston Leroux 
The Man with the Black Feather [EPUB ebook] 

Mystery novel, with four illustrations. This English translation was first published in 1912. According to Wikipedia: ‚Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868[1] – 15 April 1927) 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, 1911), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 musical. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is also one of the most famous locked room mysteries ever.‘