Through a Glass, Darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Solve the Greatest Mystery of All

by Stefan Bechtel and Laurence Roy Stains

Book Overview

2018 ASJA Award-Winner in the Biography/History Category

Is it possible to make direct contact with the dead? Do the departed seek to make contact with us? The conviction that both things are true was the cornerstone of spiritualism, a kind of do-it-yourself religion that swept the Western world from the 1850s to the 1930s. Prominent artists and poets, prime ministers and scientists, all joined hands around the s ance table. But the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 125007679X
• ISBN13: 9781250076793
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.2"