The Casebook of Solar Pons

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The Casebook of Solar Pons

Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Casebook of Solar Pons
Author August Derleth
Illustrator endpaper map by Luther Norris
Cover artist Frank Utpatel
Country United States
Language English
Series Solar Pons
Genre(s) Detective short stories
Publisher Mycroft & Moran
Publication date 1965
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xviii, 281 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
Followed by Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey

The Casebook of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1965 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 3,020 copies. It was the sixth collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.

[edit] Contents

The Casebook of Solar Pons contains the following tales:

  1. "Foreword", by Vincent Starrett
  2. "(Cuthbert) Lyndon Parker", by Michael Harrison
  3. "The Adventure of the Sussex Archers"
  4. "The Adventure of the Haunted Library"
  5. "The Adventure of the Fatal Glance"
  6. "The Adventure of the Intarsia Box"
  7. "The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlaine"
  8. "The Adventure of the China Cottage"
  9. "The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal"
  10. "The Adventure of the Crouching Dog"
  11. "The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman"
  12. "The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist"
  13. "The Adventure of the Whispering Knights"
  14. "The Adventure of the Innkeeper's Clerk"
  15. "Afterword"

[edit] Reprints

  • Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.

[edit] References

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