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The Return of Solar Pons. The Memoirs of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1951 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,038 copies. It was the second collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle .
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- August Derleth
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- Mycroft & Moran
Jun 14, 2018 · He was responsible for bringing back August Derleth’s Solar Pons for a new generation, first with his collection of authorized Pons stories, "The Papers of Solar Pons", and then by editing the reissued authorized versions of the original Pons books. He is now doing the same for the adventures of Dr. Thorndyke.
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Jan 1, 1975 · Here we have the second Solar Pons collection from August Derleth, "The Memoirs of Solar Pons". It first appeared from Mycroft & Moran in 1951, then was reprinted by Pinnacle in the ’70s as the third volume. I have no idea why. This time we get 11 stories. Four appeared elsewhere. One was first published in "Dragnet" in 1929.
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- Paperback
- August Derleth
Solar Pons Series. 20 primary works • 27 total works. Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Later adventures were written by Basil Copper. More.
August Derleth. 4.06. 121 ratings14 reviews. #2 in the series of Solar Pons books. Pons is a successor to Sherlock Holmes and the books are part homage and part pastiche of the Great One. Genres MysteryFictionCrimeShort Stories. 229 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1951. Book details & editions.
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In these pastiches of the sacred writings, written when he was 19 and 20, August Derleth has recreated the London of Sherlock Holmes. It does not matter that the familiar name has become Solar Pons, or that the familiar Baker Street has become Praed Street - something of the nostalgic charm and fascination, of the remembered quickening of the pulse and the familiar settings of the original ...
This long-awaited second collection of pastiches of the immortal Sherlock Holmes offers eleven new adventures of Solar Pons. Here are such fascinating stories as 'The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant', an account of as unique a vengeance as was ever perpetrated between boards; 'The Adventure of the Circular Room', a tale of a diabolic plot which will rouse many a memory of the old Master ...
- August Derleth
