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Solar Pons
Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Approach.
On hearing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had no plans to write more Holmes stories, the young Derleth wrote to Conan Doyle, asking permission to take over the series. Conan Doyle graciously declined the offer, but Derleth, despite having never been to London, set about finding a name that was syllabically similar to Sherlock Holmes, and wrote his first set of pastiches. He would
Adventures of Solar Pons") (1945)
- "The Memoirs of Solar Pons" (1951)
- "Three Problems for Solar Pons" (1952)
- "The Return of Solar Pons" (1958)
- "The Reminiscences of Solar Pons" (1961)
- "Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey" (1968)
- "The Casebook of Solar Pons" (1965)
- "A Praed Street Dossier" (1968)
- "The Chronicles of Solar Pons