{"product_id":"flaxman-low-e-and-h-heron-9780262051651","title":"Flaxman Low","description":"The weird—and weirdly delightful—adventures of fiction’s first occult detective.\nFlaxman 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":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51351607279904,"sku":"9780262051651","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780262051651_3062310.jpg?v=1793335504","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/flaxman-low-e-and-h-heron-9780262051651","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}