{"product_id":"9780262051651","title":"Flaxman Low","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe weird—and weirdly delightful—adventures of fiction’s first occult detective.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlaxman 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 outré incidents and situations can’t hold a candle to the bizarre capacities of the human mind.","brand":"E. and H. Heron","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47794278924500,"sku":"9780262051651","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_196f41af-4f54-4059-bf5f-cb60c033a41b.jpg?v=1776185428","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780262051651","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}