The Return of Solar Pons

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The Return of Solar Pons
Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Return of Solar Pons
AuthorAugust Derleth
Cover artistFrank Utpatel
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSolar Pons
GenreDetective fiction short stories
PublisherMycroft & Moran
Publication date
1958
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pagesxxii, 245 pp
Preceded byThe Memoirs of Solar Pons 
Followed byThe Reminiscences of Solar Pons 

The Return of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author 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 stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Contents

The Return of Solar Pons contains the following tales:

  1. "Introduction", by Edgar W. Smith
  2. "The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman"
  3. "The Adventure of the Devil's Footprints"
  4. "The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance"
  5. "The Adventure of the 'Triple Kent'"
  6. "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
  7. "The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse"
  8. "The Adventure of the Stone of Scone"
  9. "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
  10. "The Adventure of the Penny Magenta"
  11. "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant"
  12. "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"
  13. "The Adventure of the Little Hangman"
  14. "The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures"

Reprints

  • Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.

References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 48–49. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 844.
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 179. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 151. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
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