The Casebook of Solar Pons

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The Casebook of Solar Pons
Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel.
Author	August Derleth
Illustrator	Endpaper map by Luther Norris
Cover artist	Frank Utpatel
Language	English
Series	Solar Pons
Genre	Detective
Publisher	Mycroft & Moran
Publication date	1965
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xviii, 281
Preceded by	The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
Followed by	Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey

The Casebook of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1965 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 3,020 copies. It was the sixth collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.

The story "The Adventure of the Haunted Library" features a tribute to the William Hope Hodgson character Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, who is said to have initially investigated the case before passing it on to Solar Pons. Derleth published the first American (and first expanded) edition of Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder under his Arkham House imprint.

The Casebook of Solar Pons contains the following tales:

"Foreword", by Vincent Starrett
"(Cuthbert) Lyndon Parker", by Michael Harrison
"The Adventure of the Sussex Archers"
"The Adventure of the Haunted Library"
"The Adventure of the Fatal Glance"
"The Adventure of the Intarsia Box"
"The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlaine"
"The Adventure of the China Cottage"
"The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal"
"The Adventure of the Crouching Dog"
"The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman"
"The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist"
"The Adventure of the Whispering Knights"
"The Adventure of the Innkeeper's Clerk"
"Afterword"

Sources

Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 77. 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. 844.
Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 180. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 151–152. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

v t e Works of August Derleth
Solar Pons	"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 Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
Horror	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)
Science fiction	Harrigan's File
Short fiction	"The Lonesome Place" "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"
Biography	Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft
History	The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years Wisconsin Murders
Anthologies edited by	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
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