Solar Pons, including: August Derleth, Basil Copper, The Solar Pons Omnibus, In Re: Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs Of Solar Pons, Three Problems For ... Of Solar Pons, The Casebook Of Solar Pons

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More info: Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. On hearing that he had no plans to write more Holmes stories, the young Derleth wrote to Conan Doyle, asking permission to take over the job. Conan Doyle graciously declined the offer, but Derleth, despite having never been to London, set about finding a name that was syllabically reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, and wrote his first set of pastiches. He was to go on to write more stories about Pons than Conan Doyle did about Holmes.