''The Exploits of Solar Pons'' is a collection of detective

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

Basil Copper Basil Frederick Albert Copper (5 February 1924 – 3 April 2013) was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. Mike Ashley, "Basil Copper", in David Pringle, ed., ''St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers.''(London: ...

. It was released in

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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 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 ...

, a character originally created by

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 th ...

. Derleth's Pons stories are

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of the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. Confusingly, this title had previously been used by Robson Books UK, 1975, for an omnibus edition of two Pons short story collections. However, the Robson volume is entirely distinct from the Fedogan & Bremer volume of this title by Basil Copper, since the Robson book collects two of

's original Solar Pons short story collections, ''The Adventures of Solar Pons'' (i.e. '' In Re: Sherlock Holmes'') and '' The Chronicles of Solar Pons'', which Robson had also published as standalone volumes in the UK in 1975.

* "The Adventure of the Verger’s Thumb" * "The Adventure of the Phantom Face" * "Death at the Metropole" * "The Adventure of the Callous Colonel"

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* * 1993 short story collections Mystery short story collections Solar Pons Fedogan & Bremer books {{1990s-mystery-story-collection-stub

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