The Reminiscences of Solar Pons

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The Reminiscences of Solar Pons

Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
Author August Derleth
Cover artist Frank Utpatel
Country United States
Language English
Series Solar Pons
Genre(s) Detective fiction short stories
Publisher Mycroft & Moran
Publication date 1961
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xi, 199 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by The Return of Solar Pons
Followed by The Casebook of Solar Pons

The Reminiscences of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1961 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,052 copies. It was the fifth collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.

[edit] Contents

The Reminiscences of Solar Pons contains the following tales:

  1. "Introduction, by Anthony Boucher
  2. "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"
  3. "The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac"
  4. "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"
  5. "The Adventure of the Praed Street Irregulars"
  6. "The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels"
  7. "The Adventure of the Black Cardinal"
  8. "The Adventure of the Troubled Magistrate"
  9. "The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient"
  10. "A Chronology of Solar Pons", by Robert Patrick

[edit] Reprints

  • Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.

[edit] References

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