The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (2-books-in-1)
August Derleth
The sixth Solar Pons collection
Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey Jonas Fairlie set out from Frome, Somerset for London but he never got there. When his body was found not far out of Frome, Solar Pons's address was discovered concealed in the lining of his hat. What was the problem he intended to lay before Pons? And who had killed him? These were the related puzzles laid before Solar Pons in this first novel featuring the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street that unfolds a complex and intricate mystery that not only taxes Pons's ingenuity but puts his life in jeopardy at its climax. Pons is pitted against a clever and ruthless antagonist in his first novel-length adventure.
Terror Over London In addition to Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey, this volume includes the rare first Pons novel, , originally written when Derleth was a young man in the 1930s but lost in his papers until its rediscovery decades later.
"the best substitutes for Sherlock Holmes known." Vincent Starrett
"an excellent series of adventures in detection in their own right." -- The Chicago Tribune