Download or read book The Poison Belt (1913), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Novel) written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex - rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set largely outdoors in the wilds of South America. 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.