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Author:Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux

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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux
(1868–1927)

French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for 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

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux

Works

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Novels

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  • French: La double vie de Théophraste Longuet (1903) translated as:
  • French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (1909) translated as:
  • French: La Reine du sabbat (1910) translated as:
    • Part I - The Midnight Lady (1930)
    • Part II - The Missing Archduke (1930)
  • French: Balaoo (1911) translated as:
  • French: L'Épouse du Soleil (1912) translated as:
    • The Bride of the Sun (Original French in 1912; translation November 1914 in the Blue Book Magazine, 1915 in book form) (anonymous translator)
  • French: L' homme qui revient de loin (1916) translated as:
  • French: Le capitaine Hyx (1917) translated as:
    • The Amazing Adventures of Carolus Herbert (1922) translated by Hannaford Bennett
  • French: La bataille invisible (1917) translated as:
    • The Veiled Prisoner (1923) translated by Hannaford Bennett Google Books
  • French: Le Cœur Cambriolé (1920) translated as:
    • The Burgled Heart [UK], The New Terror [US] (1925) IA
  • French: Tue-la-mort (1920) translated as:
  • French: La Poupée sanglante (1924) translated as:
    • The Kiss that Killed (1926)
  • French: La Machine à assassiner (1924) translated as:
    • The Machine to Kill (1926) IA
  • French: La Farouche Aventure (1924) translated as:
    • The Adventures of a Coquette (1926)
  • French: Le Fils de trois pères (1926) translated as:
  • French: Mister Flow (1927) translated as:
    • Part I - The Queen of Crime [UK], The Man of a Hundred Faces [US] (1930)
    • Part II - Lady Helena [UK], The Mysterious Lady [US] (1929)

Short Stories

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Rouletabille Series

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  • French: Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (1907) translated as:
  • French: Le Parfum de la dame en noir (1908) translated as:
    • The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1908) HathiTrust
  • French: Rouletabille chez le Tsar (1914) translated as:
  • French: Rouletabille chez Krupp (1917) translated as:
    • Rouletabille at Krupp's (2013) Translated by Brian Stableford)
  • French: Le crime de Rouletabille (1921) translated as:
    • The Slave Bangle [UK], The Phantom Clue [US] (1925) Google Books
  • French: Rouletabille chez les bohémiens (1922) translated as:
    • The Sleuth Hound [UK], The Octopus of Paris [US] (1925) HathiTrust

Chéri Bibi Series

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  • French: Première Aventures de Chéri-Bibi (1913) translated as:
    • Part I - The Floating Prison [UK], Wolves of the Sea [US] (1923) IA
    • Part II - Cheri-Bibi and Cecily [UK], Missing Men: The Return of Cheri-Bibi [US] (1923) (translated by Hannaford Bennett)
  • French: Nouvelles Aventures de Chéri-Bibi (1921) translated as:
    • Part I - The Dark Road (1924) Hathi Trust
    • Part II - The Dancing Girl [UK], Nomads of the Night [US] (1925) IA
  • French: Le coup d'état de Chéri-bibi (1925) translated as:
    • The New Idol (1928)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1931.


This author died in 1927, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 98 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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