The Recollections Of Solar Pons

Copper, Basil

ISBN 10: 1878252208 / ISBN 13: 9781878252203

Published by Fedogan & Bremer: Minneapolis, 1995

About this Item

Contains four previously unpublished long stories, The detective Solar Pons was originally created by August Derleth and based on Sherlock Holmes (names and biographical details were changed, and the setting moved from the Victorian period to the 1920's): on Derleth's death, Arkham House authorised British author Basil Copper to continue the series. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Seller Inventory # 51111

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Recollections Of Solar Pons
• Publisher: Fedogan & Bremer: Minneapolis
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878252208
• ISBN 13: 9781878252203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Hawks, Stefanie K.
• Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

"The Adventure of the Cursed Curator"
"The Adventure of the Hound of Hell"
"The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire"
"The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich" [Alternate Version]

Cover Illustration: Stefanie Hawks

Reviews

British writer Copper (The Exploits of Solar Pons) effectively captures the style of Sherlock Holmes tales in four novellas narrated by Dr. Lyndon Parker, who plays Watson to consulting detective Solar Pons in 1920s London. "The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire" requires Pons to discover if the cause of a financier's peculiar behavior is, in fact, all in his head, while "The Adventure of the Cursed Curator" calls upon him to find out why an Egyptologist has had a mummy peering at him through his office bookcase. In "The Adventure of the Hound of Hell," Pons must puzzle out why two sets of footprints enter-but none leave-the woodshed in which a rich but miserly and miserable old woman was murdered, and he tackles a locked-room mystery in "The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich." The atmosphere is always first rate, but the puzzles are not elusive enough: readers will catch on to many of the tricks well before Parker. The moment this happens, Pons seems blessed less with genius than with irritating smugness, and the stories diminish in appeal.
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