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Cover artist Frank Utpatel Media type Print (Hardback) Country United States of America | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1965 Originally published 1965 Publisher Mycroft & Moran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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The story "The Adventure of the Haunted Library" features an affectionate tribute to the William Hope Hodgson character Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, who is said to have initially investigated the case before passing it on to Solar Pons. Derleth published the first American (and first expanded ) edition of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder under his Arkham House imprint.
Contents
The Casebook of Solar Pons contains the following tales:
- "Foreword", by Vincent Starrett
- "(Cuthbert) Lyndon Parker", by Michael Harrison
- "The Adventure of the Sussex Archers"
- "The Adventure of the Haunted Library"
- "The Adventure of the Fatal Glance"
- "The Adventure of the Intarsia Box"
- "The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlaine"
- "The Adventure of the China Cottage"
- "The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal"
- "The Adventure of the Crouching Dog"
- "The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman"
- "The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist"
- "The Adventure of the Whispering Knights"
- "The Adventure of the Innkeeper's Clerk"
- "Afterword"
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