Tales of the Fish Patrol: A Joss Recording Library Edition

These seven stories are based on Jack London’s youthful adventures as an oyster pirate. In the early 1900s, San Francisco Bay was plagued by oyster pirates who plundered in broad daylight. At sixteen, London’s common sense suggested he change sides. “The restraining of a felony was more to his liking and logic than the committing,” his wife said of him. “Surely it tickled his fancy too that the most lucrative employment in sight should be with the Fish Patrol service.” Thus he joined the Fish Patrol. Catching the rascal pirates satisfied even London’s appetite for adventure but more importantly gave us a record of these outlaw times captured by one of the world’s greatest storytellers.

Tales of the Fish Patrol (Library Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Jack, London

Classics

Joss

At the heart of this novel is an enigma. How can a murder take place in a locked room, which shows no sign of being entered? Besides the crime committed in Paris against the daughter of Professor Stangerson, the novel is also about the rivalry to solve the case between a detective and a young junior reporter on a leading newspaper, Joseph Rouletabille, who reveals in the most dramatic fashion the identity of the real murderer. The Mystery of the Yellow Room combines the weird, creepy atmosphere of the nineteenth-century thriller, the meticulous logic of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and the techniques of early twentieth-century sensationalist journalism. In the hands of Leroux, the detective novel becomes the fictional equivalent of investigative journalism.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter (Library Edition)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gaston, Leroux

Mystery

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