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The Poison Belt is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, the second book about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex. Must Professor George Challenger and friends, barricaded in a room, see Earth dic? As globe passes through a belt of poisonous ether, terror sweeps mankind; cities riot; communications cease.