• Danger! and Other Stories

Danger! and Other Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Synopsis

Danger! And Other Stories (1918) is a collection of short stories published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The collection's title story, "Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius", was written 18 months before the outbreak of World War I and first published in the Strand Magazine in July 1914. It depicts an imaginary country in Europe fighting - and defeating - Britain, and is intended to direct public attention to the great danger (submarines) which threatened the country. 

The story describes Britain's need to update its naval preparations. Norland, a fictional small country in Europe has been fighting England and is now invaded by an English army. However, Norland has a naval flotilla of submarines commanded by Captain John Sirius. Sirius uses his submarines to lay a naval blockade around the British Isles, so that no supplies can be landed. Consequently, the British start suffering famine. Some of the submarines are sunk and the British are congratulating themselves, when Sirius, waiting outside Liverpool, purposely torpedoes a large White Star liner, the RMS Olympic. The British end up surrendering.

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  • Preface
  • Danger! - Being the Log of Captain John Sirius, part 1
  • Danger! - Being the Log of Captain John Sirius, part 2
  • Danger! - Being the Log of Captain John Sirius, part 3
  • One Crowded Hour
  • A Point of View
  • The Fall of Lord Barrymore
  • The Horror of the Heights - Which Includes the Manuscript Known
  • The Horror of the Heights - Which Includes the Manuscript Known
  • Borrowed Scenes
  • The Surgeon of Gaster Fell - I - How the Woman Came to Kirkby-Ma
  • The Surgeon of Gaster Fell - II - How I Went Forth to Gaster Fel
  • The Surgeon of Gaster Fell - III - Of the Grey Cottage in the Gl
  • The Surgeon of Gaster Fell - IV - Of the Man who Came in the Nig
  • How It Happened
  • The Prisoner's Defence
  • Three of Them - I - A Chat about Children, Snakes, and Zebus
  • Three of Them - II - About Cricket
  • Three of Them - III - Speculations
  • Three of Them - IV - The Leatherskin Tribe

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