Poison Belt
Author: first_name: Sir Arthur Conan
last_name: Doyle
Language: English
Year: 1913

Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World ( http://librivox.org/the-lost-world-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/ ), Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him.<br /><br />What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has deduced that