The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Infobox Book
name = The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Jean-Pierre Cagnat for "The Final Adventures of Solar Pons"
author = August Derleth
illustrator =
cover_artist = Jean-Pierre Cagnat
country = Canada
language = English
series = Solar Pons
genre = Detective, Science fiction short stories
publisher = Mycroft & Moran
release_date = 1998
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xvi, 202 pp
isbn = ISBN 1-55246-012-6
preceded_by = The Chronicles of Solar Pons
followed_by =

"The Final Adventures of Solar Pons" is a collection of detective, science fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 1998 by Mycroft & Moran. It was a collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Contents

"The Final Adventures of Solar Pons" contains the following tales:

# "Introduction", by Peter Ruber
# "Reception in Elysium" (poem) by Mary F. Lindsley
# "The Terror Over London" [novel]
# "The Adventures of Gresham Old Place"
# "The Adventure of the Burlstone Horror"
# "The Adventure of the Nosferatu" (with Mack Reynolds)
# "The Adventure of the Extra-Terrestrial" (with Mack Reynolds)
# "The Adventure of the Viennese Musician"
# "The Adventure of the Muttering Man"
# "The Adventure of the Sinister House"

References

*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=846 | 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=186 | 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=156 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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