The Exploits of Solar Pons

The Exploits of Solar Pons is a collection of detective short stories by author Basil Copper. It was released in 1993 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, a character originally created by August Derleth. Derleth's Pons stories are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Exploits of Solar Pons
Dust-jacket from the first edition
AuthorBasil Copper
IllustratorStefanie K. Hawks
Cover artistStefanie K. Hawks
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSolar Pons
GenreDetective
PublisherFedogan & Bremer
Publication date
1993
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages239 pp
ISBN1-878252-11-9
OCLC29998142
823/.914 20
LC ClassPR6053.O658 E97 1993
Preceded byThe Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons 
Followed byThe Recollections of Solar Pons 

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 August Derleth'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.

Contents

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

References

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