The Casebook of Solar Pons
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 Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Casebook of Solar Pons |
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| Author | August Derleth |
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| Illustrator | endpaper map by Luther Norris |
| Cover artist | Frank Utpatel |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Solar Pons |
| Genre(s) | Detective short stories |
| Publisher | Mycroft & Moran |
| Released | 1965 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | xviii, 281 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | The Reminiscences of Solar Pons |
| Followed by | Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey |
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.
[edit] 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"
[edit] Reprints
- Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.
[edit] References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 77. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 844.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 180. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 151-152. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
