The Parasite, and Other Stories

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon and Francisco Goya. A rationalist physiologist agrees to be hypnotised by a small, plain, crippled woman from Trinidad, as an experiment — and discovers that she can put her will inside his and that he cannot get it out. Conan Doyle created Holmes while waiting for patients in an empty practice, and later gave his life...