A Praed Street Dossier

Infobox Book
name = A Praed Street Dossier
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for "A Praed Street Dossier"
author = August Derleth
illustrator = Frank Utpatel
cover_artist = Frank Utpatel
country = United States
language = English
series = Solar Pons
genre = Detective, Science fiction short stories, essays
publisher = Mycroft & Moran
release_date = 1968
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 108 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Casebook of Solar Pons
followed_by = Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey

"A Praed Street Dossier" is a collection of detective fiction short stories, essays and marginalia by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,904 copies. It was an associational collection to Derleth's Solar Pons series of pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. The two science fiction stories, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" and "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus" written with Mack Reynolds were originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Contents

"A Praed Street Dossier" contains the following:

# "The Beginnings of Solar Pons"
# "The Sources of the Tales"
# "Concerning Dr. Parker's Background"
# "The Favorite Pastiches"
# "From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker"
# "The Adventure of the Bookseller's Clerk"
# "Solar Pons, Off-Trail"
# "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" (with Mack Reynolds)
# "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus" (with Mack Reynolds)

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