Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey

Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey  

Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
Author(s) August Derleth
Cover artist Frank Utpatel
Country United States
Language English
Series Solar Pons
Genre(s) Detective fiction novel
Publisher Mycroft & Moran
Publication date 1968
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 131 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by The Casebook of Solar Pons
Followed by The Chronicles of Solar Pons

Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey is a detective fiction novel by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 3,493 copies. The novel is part of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. It was the eighth Solar Pons book published by Mycroft & Moran.

Plot summary

The book concerns the investigation into the death of Jonas Fairlie, who was murdered on a train while on his way to consult Solar Pons. To solve the mystery, Pons and his companion, Dr. Lyndon Parker, travel to Fairlie's home town of Frome, Somerset and from there to Scotland (Pons only), Cheltenham in Gloucestershire and finally to a remote area on the coast of Wales.

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