A medical student’s journal records a whaler trapped in the Arctic ice and a captain drawn toward something on the floes. The tales that follow include J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement, inspired by the abandoned Mary Celeste, the comic body-swap of The Great Keinplatz Experiment, an Egyptian mystery in The Ring of Thoth, and a Western parson in Jackman’s Gulch.
Early Conan Doyle stories from the magazines, a treat for lovers of Victorian strangeness and sea mysteries. Download the free EPUB.