The Poison Belt

<pre spellcheck=false><p><b>From the creator of Sherlock Holmes<em> The Poison Belt </em>is the second adventure featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest scientist hero.</b></p><p>Professor Challenger returns from the Lost World-to face a cosmic peril that may wipe out all life on Earth!</p><p>Professor Challenger the intrepid curmudgeon first introduced in The Lost World discovers that the Earth is hurtling toward a belt of poisonous gas that may exterminate the human race. He sends an urgent summons to three companions survivors from his astonishing dinosaur expedition in South America. </p><p>And he gives them one alarming command-Bring oxygen.</p><p>Locked together in a sealed room breathing canisters of oxygen Professor Challenger Edward Malone Lord John Roxton and Professor Summerlee watch the outside world go mad. </p><p>Earth careens into the poison belt. People collapse in their tracks unmonitored machines run amok ... and civilization dies before their eyes.</p><p>And their oxygen is running out...</p></pre>