The Poison Belt.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan.

$100.00

Item Number: 136219

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, n.d.

Early printing of the second book about Professor Challenger. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

The second book about Professor Challenger, The Poison Belt takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex. This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time Doyle's spiritualist beliefs had begun to influence his writing. The BBC aired a radio drama version of the story in 1944, as a sequel to their well-received adaptation of The Lost World that spring.