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Solar Pons Series

20 primary works • 27 total works
Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Later adventures were written by Basil Copper

Book 1

The Adventures of Solar Pons
by
3.79 · 301 Ratings · 42 Reviews · published 1945 · 13 editions
Solar Pons: In his Inverness cape Solar Pons steps…

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    Book 2

    The Memoirs of Solar Pons
    by
    4.07     · 145 Ratings · 18 Reviews · published 1951 · 11 editions
    #2 in the series of Solar Pons books. Pons is a su…

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    Book 3

    The Return of Solar Pons
    by
    4.02     · 129 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1958 · 13 editions
    Only Watson himself could distinguish between the …

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    Book 4

    The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
    by
    3.96     · 112 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 1961 · 11 editions
    Pinnacle paperback edition of original 1961 public…

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    Book 5

    The Casebook of Solar Pons
    by
    4.07     · 112 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1965 · 11 editions
    Whatever your fancy in the polished old world of d…

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    Book 6

    Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
    by
    3.46     · 39 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1968 · 10 editions
    Who Done It?

    Mr. Fairlie set out for London but nev…

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    Book 7

    The Chronicles of Solar Pons
    by
    3.94     · 134 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 1973 · 16 editions
    Solar Pons draws thoughtfully at his pipe, his kee…

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    Book 8

    The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
    by
    3.90     · 10 Ratings · published 1998 · 2 editions
    1."Introduction", by Peter Ruber
    2."Reception in El…

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    Book 9

    The Dossier of Solar Pons
    by
    3.79     · 57 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1979 · 12 editions
    August Derleth created in Solar Pons a detective w…

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    Book 10

    The Further Adventures of Solar Pons
    by
    3.90     · 51 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1979 · 11 editions
    In this further volume we again join Solar Pons, t…

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    Book 11

    The Secret Files of Solar Pons
    by
    3.85     · 34 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1979 · 5 editions
    "The Adventure of the Crawling Horror"
    "The Adventu…

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    Book 12

    The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons
    by
    3.58     · 19 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1980 · 2 editions
    "The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory"
    "The Adventu…

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    Book 13

    Exploits of Solar Pons
    by
    4.04     · 25 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1993 · 7 editions
    "The Adventure of the Callous Colonel"
    "The Adventu…

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    Book 14

    The Recollections of Solar Pons
    by
    4.09     · 34 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 4 editions
    "The Adventure of the Cursed Curator"
    "The Adventur…

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    Book 15

    Solar Pons Versus the Devil's Claw
    by
    4.18     · 11 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 2 editions

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    Book 16

    Solar Pons: The Final Cases
    by
    4.83     · 6 Ratings · published 2005 · 1 edition
    "The Adventures of The Haunted Rectory" [Alternate…

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    Book 17

    The Papers of Solar Pons: New Adventures of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street
    by
    4.78     · 36 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2017 · 2 editions
    Solar Pons was created by August Derleth in the 19…

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    Book 1-8

    The Solar Pons Omnibus ; Edited by Basil Copper ; with Illustrations by Frank Utpatel ; and a Foreword by Robert Bloch
    by
    4.22     · 18 Ratings · published 1982 · 4 editions
    The Solar Pons Omnibus is a collection of detectiv…

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    The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
    by
    4.36     · 11 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 4 editions

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    A Praed Street Dossier
    by
    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1968 · 4 editions
    extremely rare,very good condition

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    The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
    by
    4.52     · 33 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 3 editions
    Mr. Fairlie’s Final Journey Jonas Fairlie set out …

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    Book 9-16

    The Complete Adventures of Solar Pons
    by
    0.00     · 1 edition
    Basil never had the pleasure of seeing all his Pon…

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    The Apocrypha of Solar Pons
    by
    4.32     · 31 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2018 · 4 editions
    From the late 1920’s until his too-early death in …

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    The Necronomicon of Solar Pons
    by
    4.27     · 33 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2020 · 3 editions
    From Sherlock Holmes to the Cthulhu Mythos

    August D…

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    The New Adventures of Solar Pons: Tales of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street
    by
    4.29     · 21 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2019 · 3 editions
    In the 1920's, college student August Derleth wrot…

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    Some Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons
    by
    4.00     · 18 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2017 · 2 editions
    I am not writing new Solar Pons stories. My Solar …

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    The Solar Pons Companion
    by
    4.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 edition
    Contents
    Introduction: Once A Pons a Time
    Foreword
    In…

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