Solar Pons is a fiction

Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...

al detective

Detective

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 created by August Derleth

August Derleth

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

 as a pastiche

Pastiche

A pastiche is a literary or other artistic genre or technique that is a "hodge-podge" or imitation. The word is also a linguistic term used to describe an early stage in the development of a pidgin language.-Hodge-podge:...

 of Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...

's Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

.

Approach

On hearing that he had no plans to write more Holmes stories, the young Derleth wrote to Conan Doyle, asking permission to take over the job. Conan Doyle graciously declined the offer, but Derleth, despite having never been to London, set about finding a name that was syllabically reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, and wrote his first set of pastiches. He was to go on to write more stories about Pons than Conan Doyle did about Holmes.

Character model

Pons is quite openly a pastiche of Holmes; the first book about Solar Pons was in fact titled In Re: Sherlock Holmes. The similarities can hardly be missed: Like Holmes, Solar Pons has prodigious powers of observation and deduction, who can astound his companions by telling them minute details about people he has only just met, details that he proves to have deduced in seconds of observation. Where Holmes's stories are narrated by his companion Dr. Watson, the Pons stories are narrated by Dr. Lyndon Parker; in the Pons stories Holmes and Watson share lodgings not at 221B Baker Street

221B Baker Street

221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building...

 but at 7B Praed Street

Praed Street

Praed Street is a street in London's Paddington district , most notable for the fact that Paddington Station is situated on it. It runs straight in a west-south-westerly direction from Edgware Road to Craven Road, Spring Street and Eastbourne Terrace.-History:Praed Street was originally laid out in...

, whereas their landlady is not Mrs. Hudson but Mrs. Johnson. Whereas Sherlock Holmes has an elder brother Mycroft Holmes

Mycroft Holmes

Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. He is the elder brother of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.- Profile :...

 of even greater gifts, Solar Pons has a brother Bancroft to fill the same role.

It cannot be said, however, that Solar Pons is merely Sherlock Holmes with the name changed, for the important reason that Sherlock Holmes also exists in Pons' world: Pons and Parker are aware of the famous detective and hold him in high regard, but whereas Holmes' adventures took place primarily in the 1880s and 1890s, Pons and Parker live in the 1920s and 1930s (when Derleth began writing the Pons stories.) Pons fans also regard Derleth as having given Pons his own distinctly different personality, far less melancholy and brooding than Holmes'.

The Pons stories also cross over, at times, with the writings of others, such as Derleth's literary correspondent H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

 in "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders", and Fu Manchu

Fu Manchu

Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century...

 author Sax Rohmer

Sax Rohmer

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward , better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr...

.

The tales in the Pontine canon (as the collected works are known) can be broadly divided into two classes, the straight and the humorous, the straight being more or less straightforward tales of detection in the classic Holmesian mode, while the others—a minority—have some gentle fun, most notably by involving fictional characters from outside either canon (most notably Dr. Fu Manchu, who recurs); perhaps the most outstanding example is "The Adventure of the Orient Express", in which we encounter, among others, very thinly disguised versions of Ashenden, Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.Poirot has been portrayed on...

, and The Saint

Simon Templar

Simon Templar is a British fictional character known as The Saint featured in a long-running series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. After that date, other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Charteris’s...

.

Several of the Pontine tales have titles taken from the famous "unrecorded" cases of Holmes which Watson often alluded to, including the matters of "Ricoletti of the Club Foot (and his Abominable Wife)," "The Aluminium Crutch," "The Black Cardinal," and that of "The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant." Others of the canon are riffs on Holmesian tales, such as "The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf" paralleling (in some ways) Holmes' case of the Sussex Vampire

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

"The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short-stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.- Plot summary :...

.

The Basil Copper Pons Stories

After Derleth's death in 1971, further stories about the character have been written by the author Basil Copper

Basil Copper

Basil Copper is a prolific English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. He became a fulltime writer in 1970.In addition to horror and detective fiction, Copper is perhaps best known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuing the character created as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes...

.Four of these volumes were published by Pinnacle Books - The Dossier of Solar Pons, The Further Adventures of Solar Pons, The Secret files of Solar Pons and The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons (all 1979). A further two volumes of Copper's continuations were published by Fedogan and Bremer - 'The Exploits of Solar Pons (1993) and The Recollections of Solar Pons (1995). Fedogan and Bremer also issued a limited edition chapbook of Copper's preferred text of the story The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich

The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich

"The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich" is a detective short story by author Basil Copper. It first appeared in Copper's collection The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons in 1980, but was edited in a way that Copper disapproved of...

. More recently, Sarob Press published two further volumes of Pons work by Copper - the novel Solar Pons versus the Devil's Claw (2004) and a collection titled Solar Pons: The Final Cases (2005) which contains five stories, four being revised editions of earlier Copper Pons contributions, and one new story ("The Adventure of the Baffled Baron").

The Basil Copper-edited Derleth Solar Pons

Copper also edited the Pons stories of August Derleth for Arkham House under the title The Solar Pons Omnibus

The Solar Pons Omnibus

The Solar Pons Omnibus is a collection of detective fiction stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1982 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,031 copies. The collection was published in two volumes with a slipcase. The set collects all of the Solar Pons stories of August Derleth. The...

 (2 vols, 1982) but made extensive edits in the stories. The stories in Copper's edition are also arranged by their internal chronology, rather than by the date of their release. Copper "edited" the tales in ways that many Pontine aficionados found objectionable - Roger Johnson states "After August Derleth's death the published stories were edited by Basil Copper, who rather controversially corrected many errors and adjusted many Americanisms, into a handsome two-volume omnibus edition."

A later omnibus, The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition

The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition

The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition is a collection of detective fiction stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 2000 by Mycroft & Moran and was published in two volumes. The set collects all of the Solar Pons stories of August Derleth. The stories are pastiches of the...

, was issued by Mycroft & Moran

Mycroft & Moran

Mycroft & Moran was an imprint of Arkham House publishers and was created in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1945. The imprint was created to publish weird detective stories and the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth...

 in 2000, reverting the stories to Derleth's original versions. The later omnibus also discarded Copper's chronological arrangement in favor of the order in which the stories had appeared in the original Derleth volumes.

Solar Pons in Popular Culture

There is a dedicated Pontine web site, Praed Street; other Pontine pages of interest include the Solar Pons article at that other wiki, and a concise bibliography of the canon, which includes more stories than Doyle ever wrote about Holmes (all are short stories save one novel, Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey

Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey

Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey is a detective fiction novel by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 3,493 copies. The novel is part of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle...

).

A society, the Praed Street Irregulars (PSI), is dedicated to Solar Pons. The Irregulars were founded by Luther Norris in 1966 in the style of the better-known Baker Street Irregulars.

A branch, The London Solar Pons Society, was established in England headed by Roger Johnson. The PSI produced a newsletter, the Pontine Dossier, published by The Pontine Press between 1967 and 1977.

Though it is not formally associated with the Praed Street Irregulars, publication of The Solar Pons Gazette began in 2006 and issues may be downloaded from the Solar Pons website below. In 2008, the gazette also published the first Pons story not by Derleth or Copper, entitled Solar Pons's War of the Worlds.

Solar Pons books

By August Derleth

• "In Re: Sherlock Holmes"--The Adventures of Solar Pons
  In Re: Sherlock Holmes
  "In Re: Sherlock Holmes" -- The Adventures of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1945 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 3,604 copies. It was the first book issued under the Mycroft & Moran imprint...
  
   - (in the UK "The Adventures of Solar Pons") (1945)
  • "In Re: Solar Pons" by Vincent Starrett
  • "A Word From Dr. Lyndon Parker"
  • "The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet"
  • "The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham"
  • "The Adventure of the Black Narcissus"
  • "The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle"
  • "The Adventure of the Retired Novelist"
  • "The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs"
  • "The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman"
  • "The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt"
  • "The Adventure of the Limping Man"
  • "The Adventure of the Seven Passengers"
  • "The Adventure of the Lost Holiday"
  • "The Adventure of the Man With a Broken Face".

• The Memoirs of Solar Pons
  The Memoirs of Solar Pons
  The Memoirs of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1951 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,038 copies...
  
   (1951)
  • "Introduction" by Ellery Queen
  • "The Adventure of the Circular Room"
  • "The Adventure of the Perfect Husband"
  • "The Adventure of the Broken Chessman"
  • "The Adventure of the Dog in the Manger"
  • "The Adventure of the Proper Comma"
  • "The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot"
  • "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders"
  • "The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive"
  • "The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf"
  • "The Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen"
  • "The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant"

• Three Problems for Solar Pons
  Three Problems for Solar Pons
  Three Problems for Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1952 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 996 copies. It was the third collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur...
  
   (1952) (the contents of this book later appeared in The Return of Solar Pons
  The Return 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...
  
  
  • "A Note for the Aficionado"
  • "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
  • "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
  • "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"

• The Return of Solar Pons
  The Return 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...
  
   (1958)
  • "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" (reissued from Three Problems for Solar Pons
    Three Problems for Solar Pons
    Three Problems for Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1952 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 996 copies. It was the third collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur...
    
    )
  • "The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse"
  • "The Adventure of the Stone of Scone"
  • "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm" (reissued from Three Problems for Solar Pons
    Three Problems for Solar Pons
    Three Problems for Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1952 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 996 copies. It was the third collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur...
    
    )
  • "The Adventure of the Penny Magenta"
  • "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant"
  • "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty" (reissued from Three Problems for Solar Pons
    Three Problems for Solar Pons
    Three Problems for Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1952 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 996 copies. It was the third collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur...
    
    )
  • "The Adventure of the Little Hangman"
  • "The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures"

• The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
  The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
  The Reminiscences of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1961 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,052 copies...
  
   (1961)
  • "Introduction" by Anthony Boucher
  • "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"
  • "The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac"
  • "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"
  • "The Adventure of the Praed Street Irregulars"
  • "The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels"
  • "The Adventure of the Black Cardinal"
  • "The Adventure of the Troubled Magistrate"
  • "The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient"
  • "A Chronology of Solar Pons" by Robert Patrick (sometimes given as Pattrick)

• The Casebook of Solar Pons
  The Casebook of Solar Pons
  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...
  
   (1965)
  • "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"

• A Praed Street Dossier
  A Praed Street Dossier
  A Praed Street Dossier is a collection of detective fiction short stories, essays and marginalia by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,904 copies. It was an associational collection to Derleth's Solar Pons series of pastiches of the Sherlock...
  
   (1968) - [associational volume]
  • "The Beginnings of Solar Pons"
  • "The Sources of the Tales"
  • "Concerning Dr. Parker's Background"
  • "The Favorite Pastiches"
  • "From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker"
  • "The Adventure of the Bookseller's Clerk"
  • "Solar Pons, Off-Trail"
  • "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" (with Mack Reynolds
    Mack Reynolds
    Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross and Maxine Reynolds. Many of his stories were published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If Magazine...
    
    )
  • "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus" (with Mack Reynolds
    Mack Reynolds
    Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross and Maxine Reynolds. Many of his stories were published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If Magazine...
    
    ).

• The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
  The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
  "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians" is a detective fiction short story by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,012 copies. The chapbook is illustrated by Frank Utpatel. The story is part of Derleth's Solar Pons series of pastiches of the...
  
   (1968) [reprinted in The Chronicles of Solar Pons
  The Chronicles of Solar Pons
  The Chronicles of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It is the sixth volume in the series of Derleth's Solar Pons short stories, and was released in 1973 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 4,176 copies....
  
   (below)).

• Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
  Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
  Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey is a detective fiction novel by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 3,493 copies. The novel is part of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle...
  
   (1968) [novel]

• The Chronicles of Solar Pons
  The Chronicles of Solar Pons
  The Chronicles of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It is the sixth volume in the series of Derleth's Solar Pons short stories, and was released in 1973 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 4,176 copies....
  
   (1973)
  • "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"

• The Solar Pons Omnibus
  The Solar Pons Omnibus
  The Solar Pons Omnibus is a collection of detective fiction stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1982 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,031 copies. The collection was published in two volumes with a slipcase. The set collects all of the Solar Pons stories of August Derleth. The...
  
   (1982) [omnibus- collects all previous works]

• The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
  The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
  The Final Adventures of Solar Pons is a collection of detective, science fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1998 by Mycroft & Moran...
  
   (1998)
  • "Introduction" by Peter Ruber
  • "Reception in Elysium" (poem) by Mary F. Lindsley
  • Terror Over London [novel]
  • "The Adventures of Gresham Old Place"
  • "The Adventure of the Burlstone Horror"
  • "The Adventure of the Viennese Musician"
  • "The Adventure of the Muttering Man"
  • "The Adventure of the Two Collaborators" by Peter Ruber
  • "The Adventure of the Nosferatu" (with Mack Reynolds
    Mack Reynolds
    Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross and Maxine Reynolds. Many of his stories were published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If Magazine...
    
    )
  • "The Adventure of the Extra-Terrestrial" (with Mack Reynolds
    Mack Reynolds
    Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross and Maxine Reynolds. Many of his stories were published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If Magazine...
    
    )
  • "More from Dr. Parker's Notebooks"

• The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
  The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
  The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition is a collection of detective fiction stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 2000 by Mycroft & Moran and was published in two volumes. The set collects all of the Solar Pons stories of August Derleth. The stories are pastiches of the...
  
   (2000)

• The Dragnet Solar Pons et al.
  The Dragnet Solar Pons et al.
  The Dragnet Solar Pons et al. is a collection of detective short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 2011 by Battered Silicon Dispatch Box...
  
   (2011) (These are the original pulp magazine and manuscript versions of these stories)
  • "Introduction" by Mark Wardecker
  • "The Adventure of the Black Narcissus"
  • "The Adventure of the Missing Tenants"
  • "The Adventure of the Broken Chessman"
  • "The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham"
  • "The Adventure of the Limping Man"
  • "Two Black Buttons"
  • "The Adventure of the Red Dwarfs"
  • "The Adventure of Gresham Marshes"
  • "The Adventure of the Black Cardinal"
  • "The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle"
  • "The Adventure of the Yarpool Horror"
  • "The Adventure of the Muttering Man"
  • "Notes" by Mark Wardecker

By Basil Copper

• The Dossier of Solar Pons (1979)
  • "The Adventure of the Perplexed Photographer"
  • "The Adventure of the Sealed Spire"
  • "The Adventure of the Six Gold Doubloons"
  • "The Adventure of the Ipi Idol"
  • "The Adventure of Buffington Old Grange"
  • "The Adventure of the Hammer of Hate".

• The Further Adventures of Solar Pons (1979)
  • "The Adventure of the Shaft of Death"
  • "The Adventure of the Defeated Doctor"
  • "The Adventure of the Surrey Sadist"
  • "The Adventure of the Missing Student".

• The Secret Files of Solar Pons (1979)
  • "The Adventure of the Crawling Horror"
  • "The Adventure of the Anguished Actor"
  • "The Adventure of the Ignored Idols"
  • "The Adventure of the Horrified Heiress"

• The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons (1980)
  • "The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory"
  • "The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich"
  • "Murder at the Zoo"
  • "The Adventure of the Frightened Governess"

• The Exploits of Solar Pons
  The Exploits of Solar Pons
  The Exploits of Solar Pons is a collection of detective short stories by author Basil Copper. It was released in 1993 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 2,000 copies of which 100 were numbered and signed by the author. The book collects stories about Solar Pons, a character originally created...
  
   (1993)
  • "The Adventure of the Callous Colonel"
  • "The Adventure of the Phantom Face"
  • "The Adventure of the Verger’s Thumb"
  • "Death at the Metropole"

• The Recollections of Solar Pons
  The Recollections of Solar Pons
  The Recollections of Solar Pons is a collection of detective short stories by author Basil Copper. It was released in 1995 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 2,000 copies of which 100 were numbered and signed by the author. The book collects stories about Solar Pons, a character originally...
  
   (1995)
  • "The Adventure of the Cursed Curator"
  • "The Adventure of the Hound of Hell"
  • "The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire"
  • "The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich" [reworked from its first appearance in Uncollected Cases (above)]

• Solar Pons Versus The Devil’s Claw (2004, Sarob Press) [novel]

• Solar Pons: The Final Cases (2005, Sarob Press)
  • "The Adventures of The Haunted Rectory" [reworked from its first appearance in Uncollected Cases (above)]
  • "The Ignored Idols" [reworked from its first appearance in Secret Files (above)]
  • "The Adventure of the Horrified Heiress" [reworked from its first appearance in Secret Files (above)]
  • "The Adventure of the Baffled Baron" [first book appearance]
  • "The Adventure of the Anguished Actor" [reworked from its first appearance in Secret Files (above)]

Solar Pons online stories

By Andrew Norris

• Solar Pons's War of the Worlds (2008) [two-part novella]

External links

• Solar Pons crime/Mystery series at Matters Criminous http://matterscriminous.com/mystery-crime-detection/solar-pons.php
• Solar Pons: The Great Pretender by Charles Prepolec at Baker Street Dozen
• SolarPons.com
• Solar Pons's War of the Worlds (starts on page 19)
• "A Study in Solar: The Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street" by Roger Johnson http://freepages.pavilion.net/tartarus/solar.html
• "The Adventures of Solar Pons in Chronological Order" http://www.mysterylist.com/pons.htm