The Solar Pons Omnibus is a collection of detective fiction

Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator , either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.-In ancient literature:...

 stories by author August Derleth

August Derleth

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

. It was released in 1982

1982 in literature

The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*La Bicyclette Bleue by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.-New books:...

 by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

 in an edition of 3,031 copies. The collection was published in two volumes with a slipcase. The set collects all of the Solar Pons

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 he had no plans to write more Holmes stories, the young Derleth wrote to Conan Doyle, asking permission to take over the job...

 stories of August Derleth

August Derleth

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

. The stories are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

 tales of Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...

. The collection was edited by Basil Copper

Basil Copper

Basil Copper is a prolific English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. He became a fulltime writer in 1970.In addition to horror and detective fiction, Copper is perhaps best known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuing the character created as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes...

. The stories are arranged by their internal chronology, rather than by the date of their release. The stories had earlier appeared under the Arkham House imprint of Mycroft & Moran.

As Copper "edited" the tales in ways that many Pontine aficionados found objectionable, a later omnibus, The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition

The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition

The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition is a collection of detective fiction stories by author August Derleth. It was released in 2000 by Mycroft & Moran and was published in two volumes. The set collects all of the Solar Pons stories of August Derleth. The stories are pastiches of the...

, was issued in 2000, reverting the stories to the previous versions. The later omnibus also discarded Copper's chronological arrangement in favor of the order in which the stories had appeared in the original Derleth volumes.

Volume One

1. "Foreword", by Robert Bloch
   Robert Bloch
   Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
   
   
2. "From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker"
3. "The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman"
4. "The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Clubfoot"
5. "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
   The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
   "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians" is a detective fiction short story by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,012 copies. The chapbook is illustrated by Frank Utpatel. The story is part of Derleth's Solar Pons series of pastiches of the...
   
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6. "The Adventure of the Haunted Library"
7. "The Adventure of the Aluminum Crutch"
8. "The Adventure of the Circular Room"
9. "The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt"
10. "The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive"
11. "The Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen"
12. "The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet"
13. "The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman"
14. "The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist"
15. "The Adventure of the Seven Sisters"
16. "The Adventure of the Limping Man"
17. "The Adventure of the Shaplow Millions"
18. "The Adventure of the Innkeeper's Clerk"
19. "The Adventure of the Crouching Dog"
20. "The Adventure of the Perfect Husband"
21. "The Adventure of the Dog in the Manger"
22. "The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures"
23. "The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlane"
24. "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
25. "The Adventure of the Praed Street Irregulars"
26. "The Adventure of the Penny Magenta"
27. "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
28. "The Adventure of the Retired Novelist"
29. "The Adventure of the Missing Tenants"
30. "The Adventure of the Devil's Footprints"
31. "The Adventure of the Sussex Archers"
32. "The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels"
33. "The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman"
34. "The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse"
35. "The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance"
36. "The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle"
37. "The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham"
38. "The Adventure of the Black Narcissus"

Volume Two

1. "The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs"
2. "The Adventure of the Broken Chessman"
3. "The Adventure of the China Cottage"
4. "The Adventure of the Black Cardinal"
5. "The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac"
6. "The Adventure of the Little Hangman"
7. "The Adventure of the Man with the Broken Face"
8. "The Adventure of the Benin Bronze"
9. "The Adventure of the Seven Passengers"
10. "The Adventure of the Whispering Knights"
11. "The Adventure of the Intasia Box"
12. "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders"
13. "The Adventure of the Stone of Scone"
14. "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"
15. "The Adventure of the Red Leech"
16. "The Adventure of the Lost Holiday"
17. "The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient"
18. "The Adventure of the Proper Comma"
19. "The Adventure of the Bishop's Companion"
20. "The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal"
21. "The Adventure of the 'Triple Kent'"
22. "The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant"
23. "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant"
24. "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"
25. "The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf"
26. "The Adventure of the Troubled Magistrate"
27. "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"
28. "The Adventure of the Fatal Glance"
29. "The Adventure of the Orient Express"
30. "Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey"
31. "The Adventure of the Golden Bracelet"
32. "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" (with Mack Reynolds)
33. "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus" (with Mack Reynolds)