The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales

The Captain Of The Polestar (and Other Tales) is a collection of short stories by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1883.'The Captain of the Pole-Star' is one of the best examples of Conan Doyle’s weird fiction. This is a superb collection of strange mystery tales that are all independent, sometimes involving ship voyages, shipwrecks, amnesia, lost love, grand thefts, comedy, and fairy tales.

Contents: The Captain of the “Pole-Star” / J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement / The Great Keinplatz Experiment / The Man from Archangel / That Little Square Box / John Huxford's Hiatus / Cyprian Overbeck Wells - A Literary Mosaic / John Barrington Cowles / Elias B. Hopkins, the Parson of Jackman's Gulch / The Ring of Thoth