Solar Pons Mystery Books by August Derleth
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Overview: In 1928, a college student in Wisconsin named August Derleth (1909-1971) wrote to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking if there would be any more Sherlock Holmes stories. The response was No. Then, Derleth ambitiously countered: Could he write some? The reply? Another No.
Derleth, unsatisfied with that answer, resolved to write Sherlockian-style stories of his own. Flipping ahead on his calendar, he wrote on an upcoming date, In Re: Sherlock Holmes. When that date arrived, he duly sat down and recorded “The Adventure of the Black Narcissus”.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Solar Pons 01 In Re: Sherlock Holmes
Once again in old London, "the game is afoot." In these pastiches of the Sacred Writings, written when he was nineteen and twenty, 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 London of Sherlock Holmes, has been recaptured in these pages. And what intriguing titles there arc to these twelve pastiches, chosen from among a greater number! Here are "The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet" — about a spectral image of Siva seen at a country estate beyond London; "The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt" — which is the purest of pastiches and perhaps the closest of all the tales in this book to the original spirit; "The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle" —containing some of the neatest deduction in the book; "The Adventure of the Man with the Broken Face" — a tale of "dark waters"; and eight others. "No doubt," writes Vincent Starrett in his Introduction, "we — and by we, I mean those frantic and incurable Sherlockians who, with August Derleth, deplore the paucity of canonical entertainments — should rather have more of the great originals, but we accept the imitations, faute de mieux, to satisfy a normal appetite. And we accept them with enthusiasm. They are the work of affectionate minds and hands. There is no intention to deceive. These stories, and others in their field, are intended only to please. They are nostalgic reminders of vanished days and nights in Baker Street."
Solar Pons 02 The Memoirs of Solar Pons
This long-awaited second collection of pastiches of the immortal Sherlock Holmes offers 11 adventures of Solar Pons, who has been called by Vincent Starrett "a clever impersonator, with a twinkle in his eye, which tells us that he knows he is not Sherlock Holmes, and knows that we know it, but that he hopes we will like him anyway for what he symbolizes."
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; the complex puzzle which will be of particular interest to bibliophiles told in the Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Contest prize-winning "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders"; the curious affair which is "The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf’; and others which will bring back old, long-vanished Baker Street days.
Once again in the London of years ago "the game is afoot." Certainly no living writer has brought the Holmesian pastiche to a higher development than this. There is very little difference, indeed, in the atmosphere of the stories, once they have begun to unfold; No. 7B Praed Street readily becomes 221B Baker Street; and Solar Pons, attended by his Dr. Lyndon Parker, often becomes curiously interchangeable with the Master of Baker Street and his Watson. "There is no intention to deceive", as Vincent Starrett wrote in his introduction to the first collection. "These nostalgic reminders of vanished days and nights in Baker Street are intended only to please."
Solar Pons 03 The Return of Solar Pons
Only Watson himself could distinguish between the footsteps of Pons or Holmes. If you’ve not yet joined the chase, you are about to discover new joy in a tradition that, alas, has disappeared. Come, the game is afoot!
1."Introduction", by Edgar W. Smith
2."The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman"
3."The Adventure of the Devil’s Footprints"
4."The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance"
5."The Adventure of the ‘Triple Kent’"
6."The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
7."The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse"
8."The Adventure of the Stone of Scone"
9."The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
10."The Adventure of the Penny Magenta"
11."The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant"
12."The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"
13."The Adventure of the Little Hangman"
14."The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures"
Solar Pons 04 The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
Once more the most successful of pastiche-detectives, Solar Pons, walks on stage with a new sequence of adventures. In this fourth major collection, Solar Pons is engaged with an intriguing variety of problems – the curious puzzle of the antique sovereign boxes narrated in the novelette, "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"; the sanguine riddle of the body in the thirteenth coffin told in "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"; the perplexing matter of the man devoted to British bowlers – "The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac"; the incredible plot to foment a religious war – "The Adventure of the Black Cardinal"; the disturbing facts in the murder of a psychic client – "The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient" – and others. Solar Pons has won a place for himself among the outstanding exponents of the deductive. Almost two decades ago Vincent Starrett hailed his initial adventures as "the best substitutes for Sherlock Holmes known to this reviewer." The stories in this book – like their predecessors – are, as Ney MacMinn put it in The Chicago Tribune, much more than imitations – "an excellent series of adventures in detection in their own right." Here once again is the atmosphere of Baker Street and the London of Sherlock Holmes.
Solar Pons 05 The Casebook of Solar Pons
Forewords
Pons At His Finest by David Marcum PSI
Curious Happenings by Derrick Belanger
The Casebook of Solar Pons
Foreword by Vincent Starett
(Cuthbert) Lyndon Parker by Micjael Harrison
I. The Adventure of the Sussex Archers
II. The Adventure of the Haunted Library
III. The Adventure of the Fatal Glance
IV. The Adventure of the Intarsia Box
V. The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlane
VI. The Adventure of the China Cottage
VII. The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal
VIII. The Adventure of the Crouching Dog
IX. The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman
X. The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist
XI. The Adventure of the Whispering Knights
XII. The Adventure of the Innkeeper’s Clerk
Afterword
Endpaper Map
Solar Pons 06 The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie’s Final Journey
Mr. Fairlie’s Final Journey Jonas Fairlie set out from Frome, Somerset for London – but he never reached there. When his body was found not far out of Frome, Solar Pons’s address was discovered concealed in the lining of his hat. What was the problem he intended to lay before Pons? And who had killed him? These were the related puzzles laid before Solar Pons within hours of the discovery that Fairlie had been murdered.This first novel featuring the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street unfolds a complex and intricate mystery that not only taxes Pons’s ingenuity but puts his life in jeopardy at its climax. Though the story begins in London, its scenes range from Frome, Cheltenham, and the coast of Wales. No one had any evident motive to kill Jonas Fairlie, but someone did – a clever canny killer who had slain before and meant to slay again unless Solar Pons could prevent it, a killer whose motive was obscure but compelling, and one whose killings were planned with infinite care and carried out with singular deliberation. Pons is pitted against a clever and ruthless antagonist in his first novel-length adventure.– From the original 1968 Mycroft & Moran edition dust jacket of Mr. Fairlie’s Final Journey; Terror Over London In addition to Mr. Fairlie’s Final Journey, this volume includes the rare first Pons novel, Terror Over London, originally written when Derleth was a young man in the 1930’s, but lost in his papers until its rediscovery decades later. In the past, it has been extremely difficult and expensive to obtain, but now, thanks to the Derleth heirs and the August Derleth Estate, who still retain full ownership of both Pons and Derleth’s stories, it’s available in this new edition for the general public for the first time!
Solar Pons 07 The Chronicles of Solar Pons
Solar Pons draws thoughtfully at his pipe, his keen eyes fixed on the door to his quarters at No. 7B Praed Street. In a moment a visitor will arrive–once again setting the game afoot.
When August Derleth inherited the mantle of Arthur Conan Doyle, he created in Solar Pons a detective who genius cannot be matched–perhaps not even by Holmes himself? In these ten superbly crafted adventures, Solar Pons’s deductive cunning slices through the tangles of the most bizarre episodes of his career.
"Introduction" by Allen J. Hubin
"The Adventure of the Red Leech"
"The Adventure of the Orient Express"
"The Adventure of the Golden Bracelet"
"The Adventure of the Shaplow Millions"
"The Adventure of the Benin Bronze"
"The Adventure of the Missing Tenants"
"The Adventure of the Aluminum Crutch"
"The Adventure of the Seven Sisters"
"The Adventure of the Bishop’s Companion"
"The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"
Solar Pons 08 The Apocrypha of Solar Pons
From the late 1920’s until his too-early death in 1971 at age 62, August Derleth lived, to greater or lesser degrees, in The World of Solar Pons. Already an admirer of Sherlock Holmes when he was a Wisconsin college student, Derleth wrote to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking if there would be any more Holmes adventures. Upon receiving a negative response, he set about creating some of his own – but set in (then) contemporary times of the 1920’s. Having never been to England – and in fact, he never made it there during his entire life – he relied on travel books and commentaries to fashion a very believable representation. In these stories, Solar Pons made use of the classic methods of Sherlock Holmes. After his death, a posthumous collection of Pons stories, The Chronicles, was published in 1973, and it was believed for many years that these were the final Pons adventures. But others began to turn up, including a number that were found in Derleth’s papers – some having been written when he was in his twenties and the subsequently filed and forgotten. Now, thanks to Derleth’s heirs and the August Derleth Estate, which still retains full ownership of Solar Pons and these apocryphal adventures, this new easily available and affordable collection of these “lost” tales has been made possible. In addition to adventures such as “The Burlstone Horror” and “The Muttering Man”, there are all four of the “Off-Trail” Pons adventures that Derleth co-authored with Mack Reynolds, the complete compiled entries “From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker”, Derleth’s rare companion volume A Praed Street Dossier (1968), and Derleth’s only Sherlock Holmes story, “The Circular Room” (later rewritten as a Pons tale!)Join us one more time at 7B Praed Street, where again The Game is Afoot!
Solar Pons Omnibus 01
August Derleth – The Solar Pons Omnibus Volume 1 of 2
Edited by Basil Copper – With Drawings By Frank Utpatel
and a Foreword by Robert Bloch
Solar Pons is the successor to the legendary Sherlock Holmes. Pons, along with the faithful Doctor Parker, carries on the great tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous consulting detective. But Solar Pons is far more than a mere shadow of Sherlock Holmes and is one of literature’s great detectives in his own right.
Contents
Foreword by Robert Bloch
From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker
The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman
The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Clubfoot
The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
The Adventure of the Haunted Library
The Adventure of the Aluminium Crutch
The Adventure of the Circular Room
The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt
The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive
The Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen
The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet
The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman
The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist
The Adventure of the Seven Sisters
The Adventure of the Limping Man
The Adventure of the Shaplow Millions
The Adventure of the Innkeeper’s Clerk
The Adventure of the Crouching Dog
The Adventure of the Perfect Husband
The Adventure of the Dog in the Manger
The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures
The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlane
The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers
The Adventure of the Praed Street Irregulars
The Adventure of the Penny Magenta
The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm
The Adventure of the Retired Novelist
The Adventure of the Missing Tenants
The Adventure of the Devil’s Footprints
The Adventure of the Sussex Archers
The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels
The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman
The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse
The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance
The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle
The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham
The Adventure of the Black Narcissus
Solar Pons Omnibus 02
August Derleth – The Solar Pons Omnibus Volume 2 of 2
Edited by Basil Copper – With Drawings By Frank Utpatel
The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs
The Adventure of the Broken Chessman
The Adventure of the China Cottage
The Adventure of the Black Cardinal
The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac
The Adventure of the Little Hangman
The Adventure of the Man with the Broken Face
The Adventure of the Benin Bronze
The Adventure of the Seven Passengers
The Adventure of the Whispering Knights
The Adventure of the Intarsia Box
The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders
The Adventure of the Stone of Scone
The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue
The Adventure of the Red Leech
The Adventure of the Lost Holiday
The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient
The Adventure of the Proper Comma
The Adventure of the Bishop’s Companion
The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal
The Adventure of the "Triple Kent"
The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant
The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant
The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty
The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf
The Adventure of the Troubled Magistrate
The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders
The Adventure of the Fatal Glance
The Adventure of the Orient Express
Mr. Fairlie’s Final Journey
The Adventure of the Golden Bracelet
The Adventure of the Snitch in Time
The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus
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