The Arcanum

The Arcanum
ISBN-10
0553381997
ISBN-13
9780553381993
Series
The Arcanum
Category
Fiction
Pages
325
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Author
Thomas Wheeler

Description

A member of a group of early twentieth-century scientists and professionals who combine their talents to solve crimes with links to the occult, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle teams up with Harry Houdini, H. P. Lovecraft, and other comrades when their leader dies under suspicious circumstances. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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