Three Problems for Solar Pons

Three Problems for Solar Pons

Dust-jacket by Ronald Clyne.
Author	August Derleth
Cover artist	Ronald Clyne
Language	English
Series	Solar Pons
Genre	Detective fiction
Publisher	Mycroft & Moran
Publication date	1952
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	vii, 112

Three Problems for Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1952 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 996 copies. It was the third collection of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. The book was intended as an interim collection and all the stories are reprinted in The Return of Solar Pons. Because of the low print run, it is the scarcest Mycroft & Moran book.

The dustjacket was by artist Ronald Clyne.

Contents

Three Problems for Solar Pons contains the following tales:

1. "A Note for the Aficionado"
2. "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
3. "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
4. "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"

Sources

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 42. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 844.
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 179. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 150. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.