The Reminiscences of Solar Pons

The Reminiscences of Solar Pons

Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
Author	August Derleth
Cover artist	Frank Utpatel
Language	English
Series	Solar Pons
Genre	Detective fiction
Publisher	Mycroft & Moran
Publication date	1961
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xi, 199 pp
Preceded by	The Return of Solar Pons
Followed by	The Casebook of Solar Pons

The Reminiscences of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1961 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,052 copies. It was the fifth collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Contents

The Reminiscences of Solar Pons contains the following tales:

1. "Introduction", by Anthony Boucher
2. "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"
3. "The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac"
4. "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"
5. "The Adventure of the Praed Street Irregulars"
6. "The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels"
7. "The Adventure of the Black Cardinal"
8. "The Adventure of the Troubled Magistrate"
9. "The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient"
10. "A Chronology of Solar Pons", by Robert Pattrick

Reprints

• Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.

References

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 77. 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. pp. 179–180. 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.