Dr. Nikola's Experiment

Ingleby has fallen on hard times when a letter arrives from a former benefactor, offering him work he is well suited for. The benefactor urges him to meet Dr. Nikola, a man he describes as remarkable and deeply involved in an extraordinary undertaking. The name alone unsettles Ingleby, who knows Nikola as a figure to be feared.

The novel follows Nikola's long and tangled pursuit of a Tibetan method said to restore the dead and grant the living immortality. Critic John Clute suggests that Nikola is ruthless, possesses psychic abilities, and has a formidable scientific mind. This is the second book in Guy Boothby's Dr. Nikola series.