''The Chronicles of Solar Pons'' is a collection of
detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as s ...
short stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...
by author
August Derleth
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the ...
. It is the sixth volume in the series of Derleth's
Solar Pons
Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Robert Bloch wrote of the series, "During a span of a century there have been literally hundreds of Sherlockian imitations, rang ...
short stories, and was released in
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
by
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. Arkham retired the imprint in 1982, ...
in an edition of 4,176 copies.
Contents
''The Chronicles of Solar Pons'' contains the following tales:
# "Introduction", by
Allen J. Hubin
Allen J. Hubin (born March 5, 1936, in Crosby, Minnesota) is an American historian of crime fiction, a literary critic and bibliographer of crime fiction.
Biography
Hubin studied at Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Wheaton College and the Univ ...
# "The Adventure of the Red Leech"
# "The Adventure of the Orient Express" (Note: This novelette had been published as a stand-alone volume by Candlelight Press, NY, 1964 as a softcover with dustjacket).
# "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 Adventure of the Unique Dickensians" is a detective fiction short story by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,012 copies. The 38-page chapbook is illustrated by Frank Utpatel.
Of th ...
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Reprints
*Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1974.
References
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1973 short story collections
Mystery short story collections
Sherlock Holmes pastiches
Solar Pons
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