The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

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The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Dust-jacket illustration by Jean-Pierre Cagnat for The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
Author August Derleth
Cover artist Jean-Pierre Cagnat
Country Canada
Language English
Series Solar Pons
Genre(s) Detective, Science fiction short stories
Publisher Mycroft & Moran
Publication date 1998
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xvi, 202 pp
ISBN ISBN 1-55246-012-6
Preceded by The Chronicles of Solar Pons

The Final Adventures of Solar Pons is a collection of detective, science fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1998 by Mycroft & Moran. It was a collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.

[edit] Contents

The Final Adventures of Solar Pons contains the following tales:

  1. "Introduction", by Peter Ruber
  2. "Reception in Elysium" (poem) by Mary F. Lindsley
  3. The Terror Over London [novel]
  4. "The Adventures of Gresham Old Place"
  5. "The Adventure of the Burlstone Horror"
  6. "The Adventure of the Nosferatu" (with Mack Reynolds)
  7. "The Adventure of the Extra-Terrestrial" (with Mack Reynolds)
  8. "The Adventure of the Viennese Musician"
  9. "The Adventure of the Muttering Man"
  10. "The Adventure of the Sinister House"

[edit] References

  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 846. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 186. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 156. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.