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In London, Philip Mortimer and young Richard, Francis Blake's nephew, dine with James Whale. The director of The Invisible Man is preparing a film dedicated to the famous Yellow Mark affair. Leaving the hotel, Mortimer and Richard are nearly run over by a driverless car... 56 pages. French.
During the night, James Whale is awakened by a female voice chanting a threatening phrase over the radio. Intrigued, Mortimer calls Blake, who tells him that Doctor Septimus had a collaborator: a biologist named Ursula Phelps. By a strange coincidence, Richard recently read an article signed "Phelps," explaining that organic electricity could move objects remotely. Determined to unravel this mystery, the three men venture to Doctor Septimus's abandoned cottage. In the chaos of his laboratory, they will discover his ultimate work... With this short story mixing humor and the supernatural, François Rivière, biographer of Edgar P. Jacobs, and Jean Harambat, author of the acclaimed Operation Copperhead and Detection Club, pay homage to fantasy cinema and popular literature of the 1930s. A delicious story with a very British tone!
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In London, Philip Mortimer and young Richard, Francis Blake's nephew, dine with James Whale. The director of The Invisible Man is preparing a film dedicated to the famous Yellow Mark affair. Leaving the hotel, Mortimer and Richard are nearly run over by a driverless car... 56 pages. French.