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Mathilde bedroom. Sinclair manages to wake Rouletabille up and the reporter uses a ladder to spy through Mathilde's window. There he sees Mathilde acting erractic as she begs the attacker to leave her alone just before kissing him passionately. They set up a trap with Larsan, who has since woken up, and Jacques, each watching an exit route the attacker can use but he still manages to vanish mysteriously. Everyone goes back to Mathilde's room when Sinclair spots him again and, aided by the concierge, starts to pursue him only for them to find him dead in the courtyard, stabbed, after he escaped their sight for a brief moment. The attacker is revealed to be the groundskeeper. During this whole ordeal, Mathilde's fiancé was nowhere to be found, only to reapper the next morning. He is arrested by Larsan. Rouletabille informs Sinclair that he will leave for a while to gather evidence as he claims to know the true identity of the attacker, and states the groudskeeper was not the real culprit.
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Marquet and Larsan, try to solve the mystery and prevent the attacker from coming back and finishing his undertaking. To do so, all spend the next few days residing in the castle alongside the Professor, his daughter and their entourage. All people present, apart from Mathilde, the Professor and Father Jacques are on list of suspects : Mathilde's fiancé, the concierge and his wife, the groundskeeper. It is also considered that the attacker may be someone from outside the estate's residents.
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he would not let her remarry and would kill her if she did. This was the reason why she did not tell anyone about the first attack and why she knew and wanted to meet the 'attacker'. Larsan also set up a rendez-vous with
Mathilde's fiancé that night so that the man would leave and be suspected. Proven innocent by Rouletabille's presentation, he is exonerated and set free by order of Judge De Marquet.
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Groundskeeper in the next room but Rouletabille having moved the Keeper's ladder to spy through the window, the Keeper could not leave and was forced to hide in the hallway closet. When the attacker (Larsan) was running away from Rouletabille, Sinclair, Jacques and
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Ballemeyer/Larsan was Mathilde's husband whom she married in secret back when she was living in America and who had to disappear years ago since the Police were looking for him. He later learned about Mathilde's planned new wedding and sent her the coded letter in which he told her
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The reporter Joseph
Rouletabille accompagnied by his friend and photographer, Sinclair arrive at the castle, eager to solve the mystery. On the train ride there, they met Judge De Marquet and his aide, sent here to investigate. At the castle they learned that a famous detective, Frederic Larsan, is
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Much to the anger of everyone present, Rouletabille reveals that during the afternoon break, he warned Larsan he was about to out him, giving him a headstart on the Police. That evening, Rouletabille and
Sinclair take a few pictures of the estate at sunset while discussing the case before leaving.
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Regarding now the case of the 'Yellow Room' attack, Rouletabille explains that the attacker never was in
Mathilde's bedroom at midight. Mathilde was attacked earlier that day and the perceived 'attack' at midnight behind closed doors was merely a nightmare, recalling the earlier attack. The gunshot
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At 6.30, Rouletabille reveals the killer to be Larsan who is actually an alias of
Ballmeyer, a French world-class acrobat thief and proceeds to explain the situation : Larsan, having only pretended to be drugged to sleep, wore a welder's outfit and went to Mathilde's room. During this time,
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Some weeks later, the whole group comes back to the castle for the reconsitution. There Larsan claims that the
Goundskeeper was killed by the real assassin who then fled while everyone was distracted but Rouletabille disgarees. He just comes back from his trip with the evidence but claims he can't
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he threw his outfit in the closed the Keeper was in and both saw each other. Larsan then pretended to have lost sight of the assassin when he was joined by Rouletabille and the others. Later, the Keeper donned the welder outfit and tried to run away but he was spotted and chased by Sinclair who
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The investigators learn from the Professor that his daughter called off her wedding just two days prior. Rouletabille also informs Sinclair that something important has happened to Mathilde when she received a coded letter that profoundly upset her and her fiancé the day before.
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In the 1930's in rural France, Mathilde, daughter of the famous inventor Professor Strangerson, is victim of an attempted murder in the Professor's castle. This assassination attempt took place at midnight as she was alone inside her locked bedroom
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mistook him for the killer. In the courtyard, the Groundskeeper was murdered by Larsan to tie up loose ends. Larsan then climbed back-up through a window and pretended to just arrive, using the stairs with everyone else.
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