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The Casebook of Solar Pons

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Cover artist
  
Frank Utpatel

Series
  
Solar Pons

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Author
  
August Derleth

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1965

Originally published
  
1965

Publisher
  
Mycroft & Moran

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Illustrator
  
endpaper map by Luther Norris

Preceded by
  
The Reminiscences of Solar Pons

Genres
  
Short story, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction

Similar
  
August Derleth books, Short Stories

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.

Contents

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:

  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"

Reprints

  • Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.

    • References

    The Casebook of Solar Pons Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA