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The Poison Belt

The Poison Belt

by Matthew Sweet and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/09/2008

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Summoned by their eccentric friend Professor Challenger, Malone, Summerlee and Ruxton travel from London to Challenger's country estate, brandishing bemusedly at the behest of their host's several canisters of oxygen. As the journey progresses, journalist Malone recounts tales of strange goings on around the world, and the behaviour of all three men grows increasingly erratic. Reaching a pinnacle of bafflement, they arrive at the house of the outlandish Professor and are regaled with an eccentric theory relating their experiences to apparent impending apocalypse. A dramatic departure from detective fiction from the perennially popular creator of Sherlock Holmes, "The Poison Belt" is an important document in the history of science fiction and affords a valuable glimpse of Conan Doyle's incredible creative range.
ISBN:
9781843911821
9781843911821
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-09-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
98
Dimensions (mm):
196x126x10mm
Weight:
0.14kg
Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet is a writer and broadcaster with a doctorate in Wilkie Collins. He presents Night Waves and Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 and The Philosopher's Arms and The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4.

He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema - which he adapted as a film for BBC Four.

He has also edited and introduced the work of Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887).

This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. In 1893 Conan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901.

The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of 'The Final Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.

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