Flaxman Low, The Classic Occult Detective

The Very First Occult Detective. Thrilling adventures from a Queen's Quorum mystery novelist. Just as Sherlock Holmes was the court of last appeal for those who had exhausted more official channels, so Flaxman Low is the last hope for those unfortunate people who are faced with a mystery that seems beyond all natural laws, and which imperils not only their bodies, but in some cases their very souls. Low was the joint creation of Hesketh-Prichard and his mother, Kate, who published the tales under the pen name 'E. and H. Heron'. In the introduction to the first story, the authors asked 'Have ghosts any existence outside our own fancy and emotion?', and wrote that Low 'approach[ed] the elucidation of so-called supernatural problems on the lines of natural law'.