Tales of Pirates and Blue Water

1st english ed. (John Murray, 1922)

Tales of Pirates and Blue Water is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1922 by John Murray. The collection is divided in two parts: Tales of Pirates with stories of pirates, and Tales of Blue Water with stories of sea.

Stories

• Tales of Pirates
  • How the Governor of Saint Kitt's Came Home
  • The Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock
  • The Blighting of Sharkey
  • How Copley Banks slew Captain Sharkey
  • The Slapping Sal
  • A Pirate of the Land
• Tales of Blue Water
  • The Striped Chest
  • The Captain of the Polestar
  • The Fiend of the Cooperage
  • Jelland's Voyage
  • J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
  • That Little Square Box

Editions

• Tales of Pirates and Blue Water (12 july 1922, John Murray [UK])
• The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates (autumn 1925, George H. Doran Co. [US])
• in The Conan Doyle Stories (26 june 1929, John Murray [UK])

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