''The Solar Pons Omnibus'' 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 ...
stories 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 was released in
1982
Events January
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by
Arkham House
Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had pr ...
in an edition of 3,031 copies. The collection was published in two volumes with a slipcase.
The set collects all 71 of the
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 by Derleth, which are pastiches 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 ...
. The collection was edited by
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: ...
and provided with a new foreword by
Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small ...
. The stories are arranged by their internal chronology, rather than by the date of their release. The stories had previously appeared under Arkham House's
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, ...
imprint.
As some fans found Copper's edits objectionable, ''
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 o ...
'' was issued in 2000, reverting the stories to the previous 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.
Contents
Volume One
* Foreword by
Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small ...
* "From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker"
# "The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman"
# "The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Clubfoot"
# "
The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"
# "The Adventure of the Haunted Library"
# "The Adventure of the Aluminum Crutch"
# "The Adventure of the Circular Room"
# "The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt"
# "The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive"
# "The Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen"
# "The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet"
# "The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman"
# "The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist"
# "The Adventure of the Seven Sisters"
# "The Adventure of the Limping Man"
# "The Adventure of the Shaplow Millions"
# "The Adventure of the Innkeeper's Clerk"
# "The Adventure of the Crouching Dog"
# "The Adventure of the Perfect Husband"
# "The Adventure of the Dog in the Manger"
# "The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures"
# "The Adventure of the Spurious ''Tamerlane''"
# "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
# "The Adventure of the Praed Street Irregulars"
# "The Adventure of the Penny Magenta"
# "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
# "The Adventure of the Retired Novelist"
# "The Adventure of the Missing Tenants"
# "The Adventure of the Devil's Footprints"
# "The Adventure of the Sussex Archers"
# "The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels"
# "The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman"
# "The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse"
# "The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance"
# "The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle"
# "The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham"
# "The Adventure of the Black Narcissus"
Volume Two
# "The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs"
# "The Adventure of the Broken Chessman"
# "The Adventure of the China Cottage"
# "The Adventure of the Black Cardinal"
# "The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac"
# "The Adventure of the Little Hangman"
# "The Adventure of the Man with the Broken Face"
# "The Adventure of the Benin Bronze"
# "The Adventure of the Seven Passengers"
# "The Adventure of the Whispering Knights"
# "The Adventure of the Intasia Box"
# "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders"
# "The Adventure of the Stone of Scone"
# "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"
# "The Adventure of the Red Leech"
# "The Adventure of the Lost Holiday"
# "The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient"
# "The Adventure of the Proper Comma"
# "The Adventure of the Bishop's Companion"
# "The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal"
# "The Adventure of the 'Triple Kent'"
# "The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant"
# "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant"
# "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"
# "The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf"
# "The Adventure of the Troubled Magistrate"
# "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"
# "The Adventure of the Fatal Glance"
# "The Adventure of the Orient Express"
# ''
Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey''
# "The Adventure of the Golden Bracelet"
# "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" (with
Mack Reynolds
Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds (November 11, 1917 – January 30, 1983) was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Dallas Ross, Mark Mallory, Clark Collins, Dallas Rose, Guy McCord, Maxine Reynolds, Bob Belmont, and Todd Har ...
)
# "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus" (with Mack Reynolds)
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1982 short story collections
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