The Land of Mist

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**Title** **The Land of Mist**
Cover of the first edition of The Land of Mist
Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Professor Challenger
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Hutchinson & Co
Released	1926
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	294 pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	The Poison Belt
Followed by	The Disintegration Machine

The Land of Mist is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1926. Although this is a Professor Challenger story, it centres more on his daughter Enid and her colleague. Heavily influenced by Doyle's growing belief in spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War I, the book focuses on Edward Malone's at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism. There is a suggestion in chapter two that the deaths of "ten million young men" in World War I was by punishment by the Central Intelligence for humanity's laughing at the alleged evidence for life after death.

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In Which Our Special Commissioners Make a Start
Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company
In Which Professor Challenger Gives His Opinion
Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith
Where Our Commissioners Have a Remarkable Experience
In Which the Reader Is Shown the Habits of a Notorious Criminal
In Which the Notorious Criminal Gets What the British Law Considers To Be His Deserts
In Which Three Investigators Come Across a Dark Soul
Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena
De Profundis
Where Silas Linden Comes Into His Own
There Are Heights And There Are Depths
In Which Professor Challenger Goes Forth To Battle
In Which Challenger Meets a Strange Colleague
In Which Traps Are Laid For a Great Quarry
In Which Challenger Has the Experience of His Life
Where the Mists Clear Away