The Return of Solar Pons

The Return of Solar Pons

Infobox Book
name = The Return of Solar Pons
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for "The Return of Solar Pons"
author = August Derleth
illustrator =
cover_artist = Frank Utpatel
country = United States
language = English
series = Solar Pons
genre = Detective fiction short stories
publisher = Mycroft & Moran
release_date = 1958
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xxii, 245 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Memoirs of Solar Pons
followed_by = The 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:

# "Introduction", by Edgar W. Smith
# "The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman"
# "The Adventure of the Devil's Footprints"
# "The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance"
# "The Adventure of the 'Triple Kent'"
# "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
# "The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse"
# "The Adventure of the Stone of Scone"
# "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
# "The Adventure of the Penny Magenta"
# "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant"
# "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"
# "The Adventure of the Little Hangman"
# "The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures"

Reprints

*Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1975.

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=48-49 | date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=844 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=179 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=151 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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