The Poison Belt (Used Hardcover) - Arthur Conan Doyle

Vintage book with copyright from 1913

Professor Challenger returns in The Poison Belt to see his friends Malone, Roxton and Summerlee through another hair-raising adventure. True to form, the eccentric and bad-tempered professor finds himself on the receiving end of universal incredulity when he proposes that the Earth is passing through a cosmic belt of poisonous gas. Together with his wife and his friends, the professor succeeds in sealing himself off in a room of his home with an independent oxygen supply where they can only wait and observe as his predictions prove devastatingly correct.