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The Yellow Crayon

Edward Phillips Oppenheim

The Yellow Crayon

Paper book: €30.99

Digital: €10.99

Original publication
1903
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
606
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Crime and Thriller
Moods
Solve a mystery
Translated from
English

Book summary

Mr Sabin, an old exiled French duke, lives happily in Massachusetts with his wife Lucille, until the day she disappears in New York. Anonymous letters, written in yellow crayon, order him to return home. The crayon is the mark of a secret society of European nobles, determined to halt the rise of the socialists.

Mr Sabin follows Lucille to London, where the society is using her to influence a powerful minister. Alone, this old man stands up to a formidable organisation, amid elegant drawing rooms and political intrigue.

Full of suspense, this novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

An old man searches for his missing wife. Mr Sabin, an old French duke, lives happily in the United States with his wife, Lucille. One day she leaves for New York and does not come back.

The world of the book

Between New York and London, around 1900. The novel takes place among the very rich. People stay in the grand hotels of New York. They dine in London with ministers and princes. They cross the ocean by liner. But in…

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