This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1826 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Professor Challenger series.
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859.
It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20.
In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant wo.