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 |  | Jules Lermina (1839-1915), the author of Mysteryville, 
       Panic in Paris and To-Ho and 
      the Gold Destroyers, was one of the most interesting authors of French 
      romans scientifiques in the latter part of the 19th century. This collection includes The Nail (1870), featuring a prodigious 
        detective predating Sherlock Holmes by 20 years, the classic Burn This! 
        (1888), a novella in the vein of Bulwer-Lytton and Talbot Mundy, in which 
        a young Parisian gifted with superhuman mental powers encounters a mysterious 
        Hindu secret society that has inherited the occult science of ancient 
        Atlantis, and the eponymous novella (1893), in which young Conrad Zippelius 
        receives a letter about a mysterious inheritance from a distant relative, 
        one that comes with a secret that could destroy the world! A Spider's Revenge [La Vengeance d'une araignée] (1861) The Dead Woman's Finger [Le Doigt de la morte] (1869) The Lunatics [Les Fous] (1869) The Nail [Le Clou] (1870) The Titaness [Titane] (1885) Running-Flight [Course-vol] (1887) Burn This [À brûler, conte astral] (1888) The Zippelius Secret [Le Secret des Zippelius] (1893) Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford Cover by Jean-Félix Lyon Published by Black Coat Press in March 2011 | 
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