The Poison Belt
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The legendary Professor Challenger is once again making headlines. In a letter to The Times, he claims that a change in Earth's cosmic environment has led to the poisoning of the planet. He argues that seemingly irrelevant worldwide disasters prove that the world is plunged into the poisonous ether belt and inevitable destruction. Ed Malone, a dynamic young journalist, is then invited to visit the professor with a strange request to "bring oxygen." The four members of the Lost Earth expedition are reunited, settle for a hearty lunch, and the professor decides to enjoy his last few hours. Is all this a professor's bizarre trick or a complete destruction that actually takes only a few hours?
