Author: August Derleth
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720727828
Category : Pons, Solar (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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This long-awaited second collection of pastiches of the immortal Sherlock Holmes offers eleven new adventures of Solar Pons, who has been called by Vincent Starrett "a clever impersonator, with a twinkle in his eye, which tells us that he knows he is not Sherlock Holmes, and knows that we know it, but that he hopes we will like him anyway for what he symbolizes." Here are such fascinating stories as "The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant", an account of as unique a vengeance as was ever perpetrated between boards; "The Adventure of the Circular Room", a tale of a diabolic plot which will rouse many a memory of the old Master; the complex puzzle which will be of particular interest to bibliophiles told in the Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Contest prizewinning "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders"; the curious affair which is "The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf'; and others which will bring back old, long-vanished Baker Street days. Once again in the London of years ago "the game is afoot." Certainly no living writer has brought the Holmesian pastiche to a higher development than this. There is very little difference, indeed, in the atmosphere of the stories, once they have begun to unfold; No. 7B Praed Street readily becomes 221B Baker Street; and Solar Pons, attended by his Dr. Lyndon Parker, often becomes curiously interchangeable with the Master of Baker Street and his Watson. "There is no intention to deceive," as Vincent Starrett wrote in his introduction to the first collection. "These nostalgic reminders of vanished days and nights in Baker Street are intended only to please."
Author: August Derleth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781388343293
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Solar Pons was created by August Derleth in the 1920s as a continuation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Derleth, who famously created Arkham House Publishing to preserve the writings of his friend, author HP Lovecraft, had corresponded with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking whether Doyle would be providing any new Holmes adventures. When Doyle said no, Derleth determined to write some himself. However, instead of writing more Holmes tales, Derleth came up with Solar Pons, a detective very similar to Holmes, and Dr. Lyndon Parker, his Dr. Watson. Eventually, between the 1920's and his death in 1971, Derleth wrote over seventy Pons tales, set in that period between the end of World War I and 1939. "Now, meet Solar Pons, the Pride of Praed Street . . . The Master is not too visible - that is, to the naked eye. But you will feel his dynamic presence once again . . . Yes, dear reader, but turn a page, and again - the game is afoot!" - Ellery Queen
Author: August Derleth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Basil Copper
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
ISBN: 9780897332521
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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August Derleth created in Solar Pons a detective whose genius cannot be matched, perhaps not even by Sherlock Holmes himself. Now the pen has passed into the hand of the noted British author Basil Copper. Here are six superbly crafted tales of suspense in the best tradition of Solar Pens. Come to Number 7B Praed Street, where the master awaits.
Author: August Derleth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: Charles Prepolec
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 1894063694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Eliminating the impossible just got a whole lot harder! The fabled tin dispatch box of Dr. John H. Watson opens to reveal eleven all-new tales of mystery and dark fantasy. Sherlock Holmes, master of deductive reasoning, confronts the irrational, the unexpected and the fantastic in the weird worlds of the Gaslight Grimoire.
Author: August Derleth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552468487
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: August Derleth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The premise is that Solar Pons is the reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes.
Author: August Derleth
Publisher: Shelburne, Ont. : Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
ISBN: 9781552466612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Fredric Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780020006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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In the small town of Carmel City, it's just another Thursday night for longstanding editor and Lewis Carroll aficionado Doc Stoeger as he puts his weekly newspaper to bed. Of course there isn't any real news in the Carmel City Clarion, but then there never is, and Doc wishes that for once something would happen on a Thursday evening to give him a hot story to break. Before the night is through, Doc's wishes come true and he gets tangled up in a bizarre series of events that would make for sensational reading the next morning. But will he survive to put it into print?
