{"product_id":"the-memoirs-of-solar-pons-derrick-belanger-9781720727828","title":"The Memoirs of Solar Pons","description":"This long-awaited second collection of pastiches of the immortal Sherlock Holmes offers eleven new adventures of Solar Pons, who has been called by Vincent Starrett \"a clever impersonator, with a twinkle in his eye, which tells us that he knows he is not Sherlock Holmes, and knows that we know it, but that he hopes we will like him anyway for what he symbolizes.\" Here are such fascinating stories as \"The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant\", an account of as unique a vengeance as was ever perpetrated between boards; \"The Adventure of the Circular Room\", a tale of a diabolic plot which will rouse many a memory of the old Master; the complex puzzle which will be of particular interest to bibliophiles told in the Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Contest prizewinning \"The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders\"; the curious affair which is \"The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf'; and others which will bring back old, long-vanished Baker Street days. Once again in the London of years ago \"the game is afoot.\" Certainly no living writer has brought the Holmesian pastiche to a higher development than this. There is very little difference, indeed, in the atmosphere of the stories, once they have begun to unfold; No. 7B Praed Street readily becomes 221B Baker Street; and Solar Pons, attended by his Dr. Lyndon Parker, often becomes curiously interchangeable with the Master of Baker Street and his Watson. \"There is no intention to deceive,\" as Vincent Starrett wrote in his introduction to the first collection. \"These nostalgic reminders of vanished days and nights in Baker Street are intended only to please.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Derrick Belanger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1720727821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781720727828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Derrick Belanger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991812931839,"sku":"9781720727828","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c51237e-65d7-4e81-953e-e6457ce489f0.jpg?v=1683312377","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-memoirs-of-solar-pons-derrick-belanger-9781720727828","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}