The first collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s works ever published,
faithfully reproduced and augmented.
Originally published in Great Britain in 1890 by the Walter Scott Company, Mysteries and Adventures collected together seven of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s earliest fictional works. Three years later, two international editions were issued and these featured five additional stories.

This publication is based on the Continental edition and contains the stories:
The Gully of Bluemansdyke, The Parson of Jackman's Gulch, My Friend the Murderer, The Silver Hatchet, The Man From Archangel, That Little Square Box, A Night Among the Nihilists, Selecting A Ghost, The Mystery of Sasassa Valley, Our Derby Sweepstakes, The American's Tale and Bones - The April Fool of Harvey's Sluice.

The narratives in Mysteries and Adventures dance confidently across the genres, touching upon colonial life, political upheaval, the supernatural, romance and the furrow he would later plough to great acclaim, crime.
These twelve entertaining tales plot Doyle's development from budding young writer to the great author that he quickly became.

This collection also contains a new introduction written by
Paul Stuart Hayes, the author of Requiem for Sherlock Holmes,
which explores Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's early life and the history of the twelve stories presented in this volume.