The Memoirs of Solar Pons
1951 collection of detective fiction short stories by August Derleth
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Author | August Derleth |
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Cover artist | Frank Utpatel |
Language | English |
Series | Solar Pons |
Genre | Detective fiction |
Publisher | Mycroft & Moran |
Publication date | 1951 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | xxii, 245 |
Preceded by | In Re: Sherlock Holmes |
Followed by | The Return of Solar Pons |
The Memoirs of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1951 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,038 copies. It was the second collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Contents
The Memoirs of Solar Pons contains the following tales:
- "Introduction", by Ellery Queen
- "The Adventure of the Circular Room"
- "The Adventure of the Perfect Husband"
- "The Adventure of the Broken Chessman"
- "The Adventure of the Dog in the Manger"
- "The Adventure of the Proper Comma"
- "The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot"
- "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders"
- "The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive"
- "The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf"
- "The Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen"
- "The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant"
Reprints
- Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.
Summary of Solar Pons cases
- Solar Pons
References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 40. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 844.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 178. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 150. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
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Works of August Derleth
- "In Re: Sherlock Holmes" – The Adventures of Solar Pons
- The Memoirs of Solar Pons
- Three Problems for Solar Pons
- The Return of Solar Pons
- The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
- Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
- The Casebook of Solar Pons
- A Praed Street Dossier
- The Chronicles of Solar Pons
- The Solar Pons Omnibus
- The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
- Someone in the Dark
- Something Near
- Not Long for this World
- The Survivor and Others
- The Mask of Cthulhu
- Lonesome Places
- The Trail of Cthulhu
- Mr. George and Other Odd Persons
- Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People
- The Watchers Out of Time and Others (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft)
- Dwellers in Darkness
- In Lovecraft's Shadow
- The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft)
- The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years
- Wisconsin Murders
- Sleep No More
- Who Knocks?
- The Night Side
- The Sleeping and the Dead
- Strange Ports of Call
- The Other Side of the Moon
- Beyond Time and Space
- Far Boundaries
- The Outer Reaches
- Beachheads in Space
- Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
- Worlds of Tomorrow
- Portals of Tomorrow
- Time to Come
- Dark Mind, Dark Heart
- New Worlds for Old
- The Sleeping and the Dead
- The Time of Infinity
- The Unquiet Grave
- When Evil Wakes
- From Other Worlds
- Over the Edge
- Travellers by Night
- Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
- Dark Things
- New Horizons
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