This volume contains twelve of Conan Doyle's best stories, the first part "Tales of Pirates" dealing with corsairs and adventurers, the second part "Tales of Blue Water" with sea stories. Included are: How The Governor Of Saint Kitt's Came Home The Dealings Of Captain Sharkey The Blighting Of Sharkey How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey The "Slapping Sal" A Pirate Of The Land - One Crowded Hour 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

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Tales of Pirates” is a volume collecting short stories about sea and pirate adventures. Mixing adventure, romance, and humor, these tales offer an interesting look at pirate life.

Come along on a great pirate adventure with hand-picked literary classics and true stories about the legendary outlaws: History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Captain Charles Johnson) The Book of Buried Treasure The Pirates' Own Book Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini) Sea Hawk (Sabatini) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces of Eight (Le Gallienne) Captain Singleton (Defoe) Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe) Hearts of Three (Jack London) The Dark Frigate (C. B. Hawes) Isle of Pirate's Doom (Robert E. Howard) Swords of Red Brotherhood (Howard) Queen of Black Coast (Howard) Black Vulmea (Howard) Afloat and Ashore (James F. Cooper) Homeward Bound (Cooper) Red Rover (Cooper) Facing the Flag (Jules Verne) Pirate Gow (Daniel Defoe) The King of Pirates (Defoe) The Pirate (Walter Scott) Rose of Paradise (Howard Pyle) Captain Sharkey (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Pirate (Frederick Marryat) Three Cutters (Marryat) Madman and the Pirate (R. M. Ballantyne) The Offshore Pirate (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Martin Conisby's Vengeance (J. Farnol) Coral Island (Ballantyne) Pirate of Panama (W. M. Raine) Under the Waves (Ballantyne) Pirate City (Ballantyne) Gascoyne (Ballantyne) Captain Boldheart (Dickens) The Ways of the Buccaneers (J. Masefield) Master Key (L. Frank Baum) Black Bartlemy's Treasure (J. Farnol) A Man to His Mate (J. Allan Dunn) Tales of the Fish Patrol (Jack London) Barbarossa—King of the Corsairs (E. H. Currey) Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) Jim Davis (J. Masefield) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) Ghost Pirates (W. H. Hodgson) The Pagan Madonna (H. MacGrath) A Pirate of the Caribbees (H. Collingwood) The Pirate Island (H. Collingwood) The Devil's Admiral (F. F. Moore) The Pirate of the Mediterranean (W. H. G. Kingston) The Black Buccaneer (Stephen W. Meader) The Third Officer (P. Westerman) Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby ...

The Adventures of Pirates features nine unique yarn-spinners from Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. These tall tales will captivate your inner desire for adventure and the love of the high seas! The novella Pirate Tales, by E.W. Farnsworth, takes you on a global journey through the seas of our past, thrilling you every step of the way. The inquisition plays a part in the tale from Benjamin Fine, and the war between the English and Spanish set the scene for espionage on the seas in the short story from Matthew Wilson. These are just a few of the yarns spun for your enjoyment in The Adventures of Pirates!