The Poison Belt（有毒地带）

The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place--rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set in the jungle--in a room in Challenger's house. This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time Doyle's spiritualist beliefs had begun to affect his writing.

阿瑟·柯南·道尔：世界著名小说家，堪称侦探悬疑类型小说的鼻祖。因成功地塑造了侦探人物——歇洛克·福尔摩斯和冒险家兼学究——乔治·爱德华·查林杰而成为通俗小说史上最重要的小说家之一。他从事创作的文学类型形形色色、林林总总：历史小说、爱情小说、戏剧、诗歌等。