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 Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. The collection restores the text to its original state, removing the edits done by Basil Copper for The Solar Pons Omnibus (1982). The stories are also ordered by their date of publication rather than by their internal chronology as was done for the earlier omnibus edition. This edition also drops the Robert Bloch Foreword from the 1982 edition and adds two new introductory essays by Peter Ruber.
Contents
The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition contains the following tales:
Volume One
"Introducing Solar Pons of Praed Street" by Peter Ruber
"Of Basil Copper, James Turner, and the Solar Pons Fiasco of 1982" by Peter Ruber "In Re: Sherlock Holmes" -- The Adventures of Solar Pons [1945] "In Re: Solar Pons" by Vincent Starrett "A Word From Dr. Lyndon Parker" "The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet" "The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham" "The Adventure of the Black Narcissus" "The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle" "The Adventure of the Retired Novelist" "The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs" "The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman" "The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt" "The Adventure of the Limping Man" "The Adventure of the Seven Passengers" "The Adventure of the Lost Holiday" "The Adventure of the Man With a Broken Face" The Memoirs of Solar Pons [1951] "Foreword" by Luther Norris "Introduction" by Ellery Queen "The Adventure of the Circular Room" "The Adventure of the Perfect Husband" "The Adventure of the Broken Chessman" "The Adventure of the Dog in the Manger" "The Adventure of the Proper Comma" "The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot" "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders" "The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive" "The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf" "The Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen" "The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant" The Return of Solar Pons [1958] "Introduction" by Edgar W. Smith "The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman" "The Adventure of the Devil's Footprints" "The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance" "The Adventure of the 'Triple Kent'" "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers" "The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse" "The Adventure of the Stone of Scone" "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm" "The Adventure of the Penny Magenta" "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant" "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty" "The Adventure of the Little Hangman" "The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures" The Reminiscences of Solar Pons [1961] "Introduction by Anthony Boucher "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue" "The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac" "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders" "The Adventure of the Praed Street Irregulars" "The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels" "The Adventure of the Black Cardinal" "The Adventure of the Troubled Magistrate" "The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient" Abbreviations for the Solar Pons Canon