While I am a fan of Sherlock Holmes I found Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sci-fi novel The Poison Belt to be a bit wanting. In it, a Professor Challenger discovers that all life on Earth will be destroyed by, as near as I can understand it, a pocket of gas in the ether. He has several friends come to his home with oxygen tanks so they can essentially watch the world end together. The Heritage Press edition includes some interesting illustrations but they really don't add much to the story in my opinion. Still, the book is relatively short and not bad for the period it was written.
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