The Chronicles of Solar Pons
1973 collection of detective fiction short stories by August Derleth
Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Chronicles of Solar Pons | |
Author | August Derleth |
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Cover artist | Frank Utpatel |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Solar Pons |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Mycroft & Moran |
Publication date | 1973 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | ix, 237 pp |
Preceded by | Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey |
Followed by | The Final Adventures of Solar Pons |
The Chronicles of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth. It is the sixth volume in the series of Derleth's Solar Pons short stories, and was released in 1973 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 4,176 copies.
Contents
The Chronicles of Solar Pons contains the following tales:
- "Introduction", by Allen J. Hubin
- "The Adventure of the Red Leech"
- "The Adventure of the Orient Express" (Note: This novelette had been published as a stand-alone volume by Candlelight Press, NY, 1964 as a softcover with dustjacket).
- "The Adventure of the Golden Bracelet"
- "The Adventure of the Shaplow Millions"
- "The Adventure of the Benin Bronze"
- "The Adventure of the Missing Tenants"
- "The Adventure of the Aluminum Crutch"
- "The Adventure of the Seven Sisters"
- "The Adventure of the Bishop's Companion"
- "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"
Reprints
- Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1974.
References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 105–106. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 845.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 183. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 154. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
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Works of August Derleth
- "In Re: Sherlock Holmes" – The Adventures of Solar Pons
- The Memoirs of Solar Pons
- Three Problems for Solar Pons
- The Return of Solar Pons
- The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
- Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
- The Casebook of Solar Pons
- A Praed Street Dossier
- The Chronicles of Solar Pons
- The Solar Pons Omnibus
- The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
- Someone in the Dark
- Something Near
- Not Long for this World
- The Survivor and Others
- The Mask of Cthulhu
- Lonesome Places
- The Trail of Cthulhu
- Mr. George and Other Odd Persons
- Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People
- The Watchers Out of Time and Others (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft)
- Dwellers in Darkness
- In Lovecraft's Shadow
- The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft)
- The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years
- Wisconsin Murders
- Sleep No More
- Who Knocks?
- The Night Side
- The Sleeping and the Dead
- Strange Ports of Call
- The Other Side of the Moon
- Beyond Time and Space
- Far Boundaries
- The Outer Reaches
- Beachheads in Space
- Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
- Worlds of Tomorrow
- Portals of Tomorrow
- Time to Come
- Dark Mind, Dark Heart
- New Worlds for Old
- The Sleeping and the Dead
- The Time of Infinity
- The Unquiet Grave
- When Evil Wakes
- From Other Worlds
- Over the Edge
- Travellers by Night
- Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
- Dark Things
- New Horizons
- Commons
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