{"product_id":"9780262051651","title":"Flaxman Low","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe weird--and weirdly delightful--adventures of fiction's first occult detective.\u003c\/b\u003e Flaxman Low, literature's first professional, full-time \"occult detective\"--that is, an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method when tackling paranormal phenomena--appeared in a dozen stories first published from 1898-1899. His creators, the mother-and-son team Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard and Hesketh \"Hex\" Prichard (who published as \"E. and H. Heron\"), endowed the Oxford-trained psychologist with the bravery and acumen to tackle every sort of adversary from ghosts, mummies, and vampires to a mushroom mannequin. Both less credulous and less cynical than earlier fictional investigators of the spirit world, Low always triumphs in the end . . . but not before scientifically demonstrating that even the most outr� incidents and situations can't hold a candle to the bizarre capacities of the human mind.","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59660195955020,"sku":"9780262051651","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/4163\/2076\/files\/9780262051651-2560309be27993ef_front.webp?v=1793378091","url":"https:\/\/foxandfable.com\/fr-eu\/products\/9780262051651","provider":"Fox \u0026 Fable","version":"1.0","type":"link"}