The Memoirs of Solar Pons
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 Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Memoirs of Solar Pons |
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| Author | August Derleth |
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| Cover artist | Frank Utpatel |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Solar Pons |
| Genre(s) | Detective short stories |
| Publisher | Mycroft & Moran |
| Released | 1951 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | xxii, 245 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| 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 author 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.
[edit] 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"
[edit] Reprints
- Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.
[edit] References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 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., 844.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 178. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 150. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
