About the book: year / Publisher's abstract: Adventure stories exposing swindlers and charlatans who, in the name of their own enrichment, spread pseudoscientific and mystical theories, capitalizing on people's trust in science. ***The hero of the series is psychology professor Maurice Jacob, who privately investigates mysterious incidents that smack of a fair amount of mysticism. As befits a true scientist, he invariably gets to the bottom of the rational truth, whatever it may be.