The Poison Belt – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Free Audiobook

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by Fred Williams
Format: MP3

Professor Challenger Series, Book 2
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: November 9, 2004
Duration: 05:30:34

“Nothing could be done. The thing was universal and beyond our human knowledge or control. It was death for young and old, for weak and strong, for rich and poor, without hope or possibility of escape.”

Professor Challenger summons his three best friends to come to his country house, each one to bring a cylinder of pure oxygen. When they arrive, the reason for this strange request becomes terrifyingly clear. Professor Challenger has become convinced that the earth is entering a poison belt of ether and that life upon this planet is doomed.

In a sealed room, to the sound of the slow hiss of escaping oxygen, Professor Challenger and his friends wait out the night as humanity prepares to meet its fate…