The Mystery of Cloomber is a novel by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is narrated by John Fothergill West, a Scot who has moved with his family from Edinburgh to Wigtownshire to care for the estate of his father's half brother, William Farintosh. It was first published in 1889 Arthur Conan Doyle's The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales (1890) is a collection of stories by the creator of Sherlock Holmes. The Captain of the Polestar (1883) is a semi-autobiographical ghost story about the mysterious tragedy of Nicholas Craigie, the ship's