The Solar Pons Omnibus is a collection of
detective fiction stories by author
August Derleth. It was released in
1982 by
Arkham House in an edition of 3,031 copies. The collection was published in two volumes with a slipcase.
The set collects all 71 of the
Solar Pons stories by Derleth, which are pastiches of the
Sherlock Holmes tales of
Arthur Conan Doyle. The collection was edited by
Basil Copper and provided with a new foreword by
Robert Bloch. The stories are arranged by their internal chronology, rather than by the date of their release. The stories had previously appeared under Arkham House's
Mycroft & Moran imprint.
As some fans found Copper's edits objectionable, The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition 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.
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