The Lynx

<p>There was a chaotic tumult of ideas in his head a cerebral activity a hundred times more intense than that of the most exalting drunkenness. He clasped his forehead with his hand thinking that he was going mad. <br /> <br />Gabriel Mirande inherits a serum from a friend the chemist Brion which enables him to read minds. The Lynx (1911) is notable as one of the earliest significant treatments of telepathy. It represents a point in the evolution of the genre when it became possible to discuss the alteration of human nature in the context of a suspenseful thriller. Here Mirande must use the serum to thwart the schemes of Dr. Castellan a powerful villain although the odds are stacked against him.</p><p>Michel Corday was the author of The Eternal Flame; André Couvreur that of the Dr. Caresco and Professor Tornada novels all published by Black Coat Press. The Lynx is one of the<br />most interesting marriages of minds within the genre.</p>