# Endnotes explained — The Mystery of the Yellow Room

> Chapter companion for The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux.

## What happens

The narrator provides a brief note on Joseph Rouletabille's age at the time of writing and clarifies that the mystery of The Yellow Room is unrelated to the later episode involving the perfume of the lady in black.

## Character check-ins

### Joseph Rouletabille

Mentioned as being eighteen years old and referring to his youth.

## Key lines

> When I wrote these lines, Joseph Rouletabille was eighteen years of age⁠—and he spoke of his “youth.”

At the time of writing, Joseph Rouletabille was only eighteen, yet he referred to his own youth.

_Highlights the young age of the detective._

> I inform the reader here that the episode of the mystery of The Yellow Room has no connection with that of the perfume of the lady in black.

The author clarifies that the Yellow Room case is separate from the later story involving the lady in black's perfume.

_Disambiguates two distinct mysteries._

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