The Solar Pons Canon
Author: August Derleth
Publisher: Shelburne, Ont. : Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
Published: 2006
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ISBN-13: 9781552466612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: August Derleth
Publisher: Shelburne, Ont. : Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
Published: 2006
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781552466612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Derrick Belanger
Publisher: Adventures of Solar Pons
Published: 2019-03-08
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781797466828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1920's, college student August Derleth wrote to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking if any more Sherlock Holmes adventures were going to be published. Upon receiving a negative reply, Derleth decided to provide some of his own. However, rather than relating more tales of Holmes and Dr. Watson, he ended up introducing the world to Solar Pons and Dr. Lyndon Parker, living in London during the 1920's and 1930's. Pons solved crimes using deduction and ratiocination, often referring to Holmes as "The Master" or "My illustrious predecessor." Since his first appearance, Pons has been a favorite with Sherlockians. Now, for the first time ever, the estate of August Derleth has authorized the first ever anthology of Solar Pons stories! These twenty new adventures range from soon after Pons and Parker met in 1919 to a story that occurs after Germany has been defeated in World War II. Each of them fully and traditionally falls within the Pontine Canon.The authors of these stories have contributed their royalties to the Jan Stauber Grant Fund for the Beacon Society, which provides scholarships to educators, schools, and Sherlockian Scion societies, allowing them to purchase Sherlock Holmes books and materials in order to introduce young people to The Canon.Join us again at 7B Praed Street where The Game is Afoot!
Author: August Derleth
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The premise is that Solar Pons is the reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes.
Author: August Derleth
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781720727828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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:
Published: 2018-11-24
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ISBN-13: 9781388010577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1928, at the age of nineteen, college student August Derleth wrote to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking him whether he planned to produce more Sherlock Holmes stories, and announcing that, if Sir Arthur did not, he, Derleth, would begin a series of pastiches of his own. Sir Arthur promised nothing, and Derleth went ahead, creating Solar Pons. Between Pons' first published appearance in 1929 until Derleth's death in 1971, the bite of the Sherlockian bug prompted him to write more than seventy Solar Pons adventures in the best Holmes tradition. Throughout, he devoted endless hours to research and authentication of details into recreating the London milieu of Pons.Now, restored from the original 1973 Mycroft and Moran edition, Solar Pons is back! Join Pons and Dr. Parker in The Chronicles of Solar Pons as they investigate the terrifying events of "The Missing Tenants", the suspenseful matter of "The Orient Express", and the nearly perfect adventure of "The Unique Dickensians".For many years, it was believed the Pontine Canon would end with the publication of The Chronicles of Solar Pons in 1973. But over the years, additional material was discovered in various places, including obscure publications and Derleth's own files. Now, thanks to Derleth's heirs and the August Derleth Estate, which still retains full ownership of Solar Pons and these apocryphal adventures, this new easily available and affordable collection has been made possible.Once again, the game is afoot!
Author: August Derleth
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-09
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ISBN-13: 9781388343170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thirteen short stories depicting the further adventures of Solar Pons, whose prototype is Sherlock Holmes. Includes three stories published in a limited edition in 1952 as "Three problems for Solar Pons".
Author: Basil Copper
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780897332736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this second volume we again join Solar Pons, the latter-day Sherlock Holmes, and his colleague, Dr Lyndon Parker, as they solve another four puzzling cases. What we always knew about Sherlock Holmes when he supposedly fell to his death at the Reichenbah Falls, we now know about Solar Pons -- he is not dead; he has just been hiding.
Author: August Derleth
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-09
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ISBN-13: 9781388343293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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