The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Title The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians

cover by Frank Utpatel for The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
Author August Derleth
Illustrator Frank Utpatel
Cover artist Frank Utpatel
Country United States
Language English
Series Solar Pons
Genre(s) Detective fiction short story
Publisher Mycroft & Moran
Released 1968
Media type Print (Chapbook)
Pages 38 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by The Casebook of Solar Pons
Followed by Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey

The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians is a detective fiction short story by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,012 copies. The chapbook is illustrated by Frank Utpatel. The story is part of Derleth's Solar Pons series of pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. It is a Christmas story about Ebenezer Snawley, an eccentric collector of Dickensiana who dresses in nineteenth-century clothing and is harassed by a man who bawls street cries near his dwelling. The story was eventually collected in The Chronicles of Solar Pons.

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 91. 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., 845. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 182. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 153. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.