The Return of Solar Pons
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 Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Return of Solar Pons |
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| Author | August Derleth |
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| Cover artist | Frank Utpatel |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Solar Pons |
| Genre(s) | Detective fiction short stories |
| Publisher | Mycroft & Moran |
| Released | 1958 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | xxii, 245 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | The Memoirs of Solar Pons |
| Followed by | The Reminiscences of Solar Pons |
The Return of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1958 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,079 copies. It was the fourth collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.
[edit] Contents
The Return of Solar Pons contains the following tales:
- "Introduction", by Edgar W. Smith
- "The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman"
- "The Adventure of the Devil's Footprints"
- "The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance"
- "The Adventure of the 'Triple Kent'"
- "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
- "The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse"
- "The Adventure of the Stone of Scone"
- "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
- "The Adventure of the Penny Magenta"
- "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant"
- "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"
- "The Adventure of the Little Hangman"
- "The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures"
[edit] Reprints
- Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.
[edit] References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 48-49. 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, 179. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 151. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
