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The Recollections of Solar Pons (Four Novellas)
The Recollections of Solar Pons - Four Novellas Author:Basil Copper "...new adventures of "the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street." — Solar Pons lives again in this new collection of finely crafted mysteries by Basil Copper. Mr. Pons was created by August Derleth in 1928 to fill the void after Arthur Conan Doyle stopped writing Holmes stories. Since Derleth passed on in the early Seventies, the series has been conti... more »nued by his friend and admirer Basil Copper, who brings a keen sense of period and atmosphere to these new adventures of "the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street."
Contents:
-- The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire - requires Pons to discover if the cause of a financier's peculiar behavior is, in fact, all in his head;
-- The Adventure of the Cursed Curator - Pons must find out why an Egyptologist has had a mummy peering at him through his office bookcase.
-- The Adventure of the Hound from Hell - Pons must puzzle out why two sets of footprints enterbut none leave the woodshed in which a rich but miserly and miserable old woman was murdered.
-- The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich - Pons tackles a locked-room mystery.