The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates

George H. Doran Co. (1925)

Tales of Pirates and Blue Water is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1925. The volume is divided in two parts: Tales of Pirates with stories of pirates, and Tales of Blue Water with stories of sea. The same content has been published previously in 1922 in Tales of Pirates and Blue Water by John Murray.

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])

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