''The Memoirs 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 American writer
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 was released in
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
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 2,038 copies. It was the second collection 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 ...
stories which are
pastiches
A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche pays homage to the work it imitates, rather than mocking it ...
of the
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...
tales of
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
.
Contents
''The Memoirs of Solar Pons'' contains the following tales:
# "Introduction", by
Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve ...
# "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"
Reprints
*Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.
Summary of Solar Pons cases
Solar Pons
References
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1951 short story collections
Mystery short story collections
Sherlock Holmes pastiches
Solar Pons
Books by August Derleth
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