The Exploits of Solar Pons

The Exploits of Solar Pons is a collection of detective short stories by author Basil Copper. It was released in 1993 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 2,000 copies of which 100 were numbered and signed by the author. The book collects stories about Solar Pons, a character originally created by August Derleth. Derleth's Pons stories are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Exploits of Solar Pons

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Basil Copper
Illustrator	Stefanie K. Hawks
Cover artist	Stefanie K. Hawks
Language	English
Series	Solar Pons
Genre	Detective
Publisher	Fedogan & Bremer
Publication date	1993
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	239 pp
ISBN	1-878252-11-9
OCLC	29998142
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 20
LC Class	PR6053.O658 E97 1993
Preceded by	The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons
Followed by	The Recollections of Solar Pons

Confusingly, this title had previously been used by Robson Books UK, 1975, for an omnibus edition of two Pons short story collections. However, the Robson volume is entirely distinct from the Fedogan & Bremer volume of this title by Basil Copper, since the Robson book collects two of August Derleth's original Solar Pons short story collections, The Adventures of Solar Pons (i.e. In Re: Sherlock Holmes) and The Chronicles of Solar Pons, which Robson had also published as standalone volumes in the UK in 1975.

Contents

• "The Adventure of the Verger’s Thumb"
• "The Adventure of the Phantom Face"
• "Death at the Metropole"
• "The Adventure of the Callous Colonel"

References

• Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)". Retrieved 2008-03-25.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 252–253.