Shieri = Bibi No Saisho No Boken / Original Title: Premieres Aventures De Cheri Bibi (Bell Epoch Kaijin Sosho)

[Machine Translation] Cheri Bibi, a butcher's apprentice, committed murder by accident, and murder after murder has been committed ever since, and he is on his way on the prison ship Bayard to the penal colony of Cayenne as an unprecedented villain... The prisoners were waiting for a signal from Cheri-Bibi to rise up! The Bayard, which was under their control, was washed up with people in distress. The Marquis du Touchet is there - Cheri Bibi is framed for the murder of his father, and his wife is Cecily, his first love! He comes up with a plan to take revenge on the vile man with whom he has a history... The young Marquis is replaced in an unspeakable way by the surgeon Le Canac! With a great secret, Cheri-Bibi begins her married life with Cecily? Everything is guided by "fatalitas" (fate), and the finale is a spectacular spectacle! Gaston Leroux, the "last serial novelist" of the French Belle Epoque, is the author of "The Yellow Room" and "The Mystery of the Yellow Room". In 1913, after becoming a successful author with "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" and "The Phantom of the Opera," Leroux finally made it to the top by serializing the popular monster series "Cheri Bibi" for the first time in Japan in the newspaper "Le Matin" !

肉屋見習いのシェリ=ビビはある偶然から殺人を犯し、以来殺人が殺人を呼び、前代未聞の極悪人として流刑地カイエンヌへと向かう監獄船バイヤール号の途上にあった...囚人たちは待っていた、シェリ=ビビからの蜂起の合図を!支配下に置いたバイヤール号に遭難者が流れつく。そこにデュ・トゥシェ侯爵がいた―シェリ=ビビは侯爵の父殺害の濡れ衣を着せられ、その妻は初恋の相手セシリー!因縁の下劣漢にある復讐を考えつく...外科医ル・カナックによる言語を絶する方法で若き侯爵と入れ替わるのだ!大いなる秘密を宿しシェリ=ビビはセシリーと夫婦生活をはじめる?すべては“ファタリタス(運命)”に導かれ、フィナーレの大スペクタクルは圧巻!フランスのベル・エポックに人気を博した“最後の連載小説家”と称されるガストン・ルルー。『黄色い部屋の謎』と『オペラ座の怪人』で売れっ子作家となったルルーが、一九一三年満を持して“ル・マタン”紙に連載した本邦初紹介の人気怪人シリーズ“シェリ=ビビ”!