With millions of copies of her books in print, she is at the forefront of the urban fantasy/paranormal romance genre.Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. Ward is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Today, he lives in Baltimore and is a department chair at Baltimore City Community College. In 1997, he switched gears from writing and literature to study clinical psychology. Flynn was inspired to write his definitive study of the Opera Ghost after seeing Michael Crawford on Broadway in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning musical. Among his published words are Cinematic Vampires, Dissecting Aliens, Visions in Light and Shadow, and Phantoms of the Opera.
Flynn is a Chicago-born author, university professor, psychologist, and science-fiction enthusiast. His works have been called "among the finest examples of the detective stories we possess." But Leroux's best-known story is The Phantom of the Opera (1911), whose macabre hero has been played in films by classic horror film stars Lon Chaney and Claude Rains.ĭr. One of his most famous detective novels, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, was published in 1907.
His high-spirited, often dangerous, escapades and questioning nature provided much of the background and plot material for his sensational mystery and adventure stories, particularly those starring his reporter/sleuth Joseph Rouletabille. After beginning his career as a crime reporter and war correspondent, he lived an adventurous life that took him to Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and even into North Africa disguised as an Arab. Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was a French journalist, playwright, and detective/thriller writer.
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