''The Recollections 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 1995 by

Fedogan & Bremer Fedogan & Bremer is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1985 by Philip Rahman and Dennis Weiler. The name comes from the nicknames of the two founders when they were in college. The first Fedogan and ...

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 themselves

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 stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The first three stories are original to this collection. " The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich" first appeared in Copper's collection ''The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons'' in 1979, but Copper disapproved of how it was edited. Copper's preferred text was first published by Fedogan & Bremer as a chapbook in 1995.

* "The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire" * "The Adventure of the Cursed Curator" * "The Adventure of the Hound of Hell" * " The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich"

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* * 1995 short story collections Mystery short story collections Sherlock Holmes pastiches Solar Pons Fedogan & Bremer books {{1990s-mystery-story-collection-stub

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