The Recollections of Solar Pons
by Copper, Basil & Stefanie K. Hawks
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1878252208
- ISBN 13
- 9781878252203
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About This Item
E-349: Fedogan & Bremer Pub Llc. Very Good. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Fedogan & Bremer Pub Llc, Minneapolis, MN, 1995. 248 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Part of the series of Solar Pons collections published by F&B, this one includes The Adventures of the Mad Millionaire, Cursed Curator, Hound From Hell, and Singular Sandwich. British writer Copper (The Exploits of Solar Pons) effectively captures the style of Sherlock Holmes tales in four novellas narrated by Dr. Lyndon Parker, who plays Watson to consulting detective Solar Pons in 1920s London. "The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire" requires Pons to discover if the cause of a financier's peculiar behavior is, in fact, all in his head, while "The Adventure of the Cursed Curator" calls upon him to find out why an Egyptologist has had a mummy peering at him through his office bookcase. In "The Adventure of the Hound of Hell," Pons must puzzle out why two sets of footprints enter-but none leave-the woodshed in which a rich but miserly and miserable old woman was murdered, and he tackles a locked-room mystery in "The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich." The atmosphere is always first rate, but the puzzles are not elusive enough: readers will catch on to many of the tricks well before Parker. The moment this happens, Pons seems blessed less with genius than with irritating smugness, and the stories diminish in appeal. EB; 6 X 1 X 9 inches; 248 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67429
- Title
- The Recollections of Solar Pons
- Author
- Copper, Basil & Stefanie K. Hawks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1878252208
- ISBN 13
- 9781878252203
- Publisher
- Fedogan & Bremer Pub Llc
- Place of Publication
- E-349
- Date Published
- 1995
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