''Three Problems for 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 spec ...
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 ...
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 th ...
. It was released in
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh ...
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 996 copies. It was the third 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, r ...
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 tales of
Arthur Conan Doyle. The book was intended as an interim collection and all the stories are reprinted in ''
The Return of Solar Pons
''The Return of Solar Pons'' is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1958 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,079 copies. It was the fourth collection of Derleth's Solar Pons st ...
''. Because of the low print run, it is the scarcest Mycroft & Moran book.
The dustjacket was by artist Ronald Clyne.
Contents
''Three Problems for Solar Pons'' contains the following tales:
# "A Note for the Aficionado"
# "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
# "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
# "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"
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1952 short story collections
Mystery short story collections
Solar Pons
Books by August Derleth
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