The Apocrypha of Solar Pons

August Derleth

The eighth Solar Pons collection

After August Derleth's death, the posthumous collection of Pons stories, The Chronicles, (available as a yellowback) was believed to be the final Pons adventures. But others began to turn up, including a number that were found in Derleth's papers some having been written when he was in his twenties and the subsequently filed and forgotten. After their discovery this collection of "lost" tales branded the apocrypha has been published.

In addition to adventures such as "The Burlstone Horror" and "The Muttering Man", there are all four of the "Off-Trail" Pons adventures that Derleth co-authored with Mack Reynolds, the complete compiled entries "From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker", Derleth's rare companion volume A Praed Street Dossier (1968), and Derleth's only Sherlock Holmes story, "The Circular Room" (later rewritten as a Pons tale!)

"the best substitutes for Sherlock Holmes known." Vincent Starrett

"an excellent series of adventures in detection in their own right." -- The Chicago Tribune

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