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{{Short description|2000 collection of detective fiction stories by August Derleth}}
{{Infobox book
| name          = The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
| title_orig    =
| translator    =
| image         = OTSolarPonsOmnibus.jpg
| caption       = Dust-jacket illustration by Jean-Pierre Cagnat for ''The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition Volume 1''
| author        = [[August Derleth]]
| illustrator   = Frank Utpatel
| cover_artist  = Jean-Pierre Cagnat
| country       = Canada
| language      = English
| series        = [[Solar Pons]]
| genre         = [[Detective fiction|Detective]], [[Science fiction]] [[short stories]]
| publisher     = [[Mycroft & Moran]]
| release_date  = 2000
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| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]])
| pages         = Volume 1: xx, 384 pp; Volume 2: viii, 826 pp (2 volumes are consecutively paginated)
| isbn =  1-55246-070-3 |isbn_note= (v. 1), {{ISBN|1-55246-072-X}} (v. 2), {{ISBN|1-55246-074-6}} (set)
| oclc= 38430841
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'''''The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition''''' is a collection of [[detective fiction]] stories by author [[August Derleth]].  It was released in [[2000 in literature|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 made by [[Basil Copper]] for the 1982 collection ''[[The Solar Pons Omnibus]]''.  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|"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
===Volume Two===
# ''[[The Casebook of Solar Pons]]'' [1965]
#* "Foreword" by [[Vincent Starrett]]
#* "The Adventure of the Sussex Archers"
#* "The Adventure of the Haunted Library"
#* "The Adventure of the Fatal Glance"
#* "The Adventure of the Intarsia Box"
#* "The Adventure of the Spurious ''Tamerlaine''"
#* "The Adventure of the China Cottage"
#* "The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal"
#* "The Adventure of the Crouching Dog"
#* "The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman"
#* "The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist"
#* "The Adventure of the Whispering Knights"
#* "The Adventure of the Innkeeper's Clerk"
#* "Afterword"
# ''[[Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey]]'' [1968]
#* I. "The Last of Jonas Fairlie"
#* II. "Farway Hall"
#* III. "The Poor Cousins"
#* IV. "Mr. Abercrombie's Reticence"
#* V. "An Attempt at Murder"
#* VI. "Inquest"
#* VII. "A Visit to Cheltenham"
#* VIII. "Jonas Fairlie's Retreat"
#* IX. "The Second Secret"
# ''[[The Chronicles of Solar Pons]]'' [1973]
#* "Introduction" by [[Allen J. Hubin]]
#* "The Adventure of the Red Leech"
#* "The Adventure of the Orient Express"
#* "The Adventure of the Golden Bracelet"
#* "The Adventure of the Shaplow Millions"
#* "The Adventure of the Benin Bronze"
#* "The Adventure of the Missing Tenants"
#* "The Adventure of the Aluminum Crutch"
#* "The Adventure of the Seven Sisters"
#* "The Adventure of the Bishop's Companion"
#* "[[The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians]]"
#''[[A Praed Street Dossier]]'' [1968]
#* "The Beginnings of Solar Pons"
#* "The Sources of the Tales"
#* "Concerning Dr. Parker's Background"
#* "The Favorite Pastiches"
#* "From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker"
#* "The Adventure of the Bookseller's Clerk"
#* "Solar Pons, Off-Trail"
#* "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" (with [[Mack Reynolds]])
#* "The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus" (with [[Mack Reynolds]])
# ''[[The Final Adventures of Solar Pons]]'' [1998]
#* ''Terror Over London''
#** i. "If You See a Hunchback"
#** ii. "At the Foreign Office"
#** iii. "Pons Explains"
#** iv. "The Lady Ysola Warrender"
#** v. "The King of Clubs"
#** vi. "Lord Norton is Indiscreet"
#** vii. "Mr. Howells Appears and Disappears"
#** viii. "The Lady in Black"
#** ix. "The Green Light"
#** x. "Mr. Howells Once More"
#** xi. "Number 21, Limehouse Causeway"
#** xii. "The Enemy Strikes"
#** xiii. "Mr. John Devore"
#** xiv. "The Horror in the Fog"
#** xv. "The Halting Footsteps"
#** xvi. "The Dead Man Comes to Life"
#** xvii. "Alvert, the Dove"
#** xviii. "Frick is Heard From"
#** xix. "The End in Sight"
#** xx. "The Last of the Clubs"
#* The Lost Adventures
#** "The Adventures of Gresham Old Place"
#** "The Adventure of the Burlstone Horror"
#** "The Adventure of the Viennese Musician"
#** "The Adventure of the Muttering Man"
#* The Off-Trail Solar Pons
#** "The Adventure of the Nosferatu" (with [[Mack Reynolds]])
#** "The Adventure of the Extra-Terrestrial" (with [[Mack Reynolds]])
# Praed Street Papers
#* Cartoons by Frank Utpatel
#* "The Adventure of the Limping Man"
#* "The Adventure of the Missing Tenants"
# Abbreviations for the Solar Pons Canon
==References==
*{{cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=157 | year=2004 | isbn=0-7864-1785-4}}
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