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The life of Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) had its own dramas: he apparently gambled away the millions he inherited (and that was in the days when millions were millions) and only narrowly avoided bankruptcy (in the days when bankruptcy meant absolute ruin). I wonder if they were as confused by it as I was: veterans of Wilkie Collins The Woman in Whiteand other mystery novels of the period, they were perhaps more used to Gothic melodrama? I’ve never seen the Andrew Lloyd Webber version of Phantom of the Opera so I came to this book as innocent of its plot as Gaston Leroux’s readers were when it was first published in 1911.
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