Tales of Pirates and Blue Water (1922) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Book Review by George S: This 1922 volume contains stories written by Doyle over a long period, and the most striking are the four about the evil pirate Sharkey, set mostly in the Caribbean during the early eighteenth century.

In the course of them, Doyle presents a potted history of the Caribbean. He depicts it as a violent place, where there has been a degeneration from the age of the merchant adventurers, ...