title: The Captain of the 'Polestar' and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction, Literary, Short Stories
author:  Arthur Conan Doyle 
description: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; his non-Sherlockian works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement", helped to popularize the mystery of the Mary Celeste.
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  # The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  THE CAPTAIN OF THE "POLE-STAR."
  
  
  THE GREAT KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT.
  
  
  THE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL.
  
  
  THAT LITTLE SQUARE BOX.
  
  
  JOHN HUXFORD'S HIATUS.
  
  
  CYPRIAN OVERBECK WELLS.
  
  
  JOHN BARRINGTON COWLES.
  
  
  PART I
  
  
  PART II.
  
  
  ELIAS B. HOPKINS, THE PARSON OF JACKMAN'S GULCH.
  
  
  
  
  
  THE RING OF THOTH.
  
  
  
  
  
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  TO
  
  
  MY FRIEND
  
  
  MAJOR-GENERAL A. W. DRAYSON
  
  
  AS A SLIGHT TOKEN
  
  
  OF
  
  
  MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GREAT
  
  
  AND AS YET UNRECOGNISED SERVICES TO ASTRONOMY
  
  
  This little Volume
  
  
  IS
  
  
  DEDICATED
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
  For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the
  
  
  courtesy of the Proprietors of "Cornhill," "Temple Bar," "Belgravia,"
  
  
  "London Society," "Cassell's," and "The Boy's Own Paper." A. CONAN
  
  
  DOYLE, M.D.
  
  
    
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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