“The Captain of the Pole-Star” is a sea story written by Arthur Conan Doyle (1865-1930). First published in 1890, the tale is about a ship anchored in the Arctic Sea and a mysterious ghost that appears to the crew during the night... This edition also contains a choice of Conan Doyle’s best aphorisms and quotes and an essay on the invention of the Sherlock Holmes’ character written by Harold Emery Jones (1875-1909) in 1904.