''Rouletabille at Krupp's'' (French: ''Rouletabille chez Krupp'') is a 1917 French

thriller novel Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspe ...

by the French writer

Gaston Leroux Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (; 6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (, 1909), which has been made int ...

.Goulet p.267 It is the fifth in his series of novels featuring the fictional detective Joseph Rouletabille.

Synopsis

During the

First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

, Rouletabille is sent behind enemy lines to investigate the whereabouts of a French scientist who has been kidnapped and forced to work on a new super weapon for the

German Empire The German Empire (),; ; World Book, Inc. ''The World Book dictionary, Volume 1''. World Book, Inc., 2003. p. 572. States that Deutsches Reich translates as "German Realm" and was a former official name of Germany. also referred to as Imperia ...

at the

Krupp Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp (formerly Fried. Krupp AG and Friedrich Krupp GmbH), trade name, trading as Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century as well as Germany's premier weapons manufacturer dur ...

armaments factory.

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* Andrea Goulet. ''Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France''. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 1917 French novels French mystery novels Novels by Gaston Leroux {{1910s-thriller-novel-stub