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The Club-Footed Grocer

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published 1908
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"Stephen is invited by letter to visit his disreputable uncle who used to be a ship's chandler in Stepney but was attacked and beaten and, when the attacker was gaoled, moved to a remote cottage in the Lake District. Thence Stephen goes to discover the pirate has been released form gaol, gathered his crew and is besieging the uncle." (Books & Boots)

First published in the Strand Magazine, November 1898.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1908 Round the Fire Stories The McClure Company Collection 196
1908 Cover Round the Fire Stories Smith, Elder & Co. Collection 202
March 1982 Cover Le train perdu 10/18 Collection 116
May 1991 Cover Round the Fire Stories Chronicle Books Collection 124
December 2015 Cover Round the Fire Stories MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Collection
February 2017 Round the Fire Stories Project Gutenberg Collection |202