Derleth, August

Solar Pons Mr Fairlie's Final Journey [#7]

New York: Pinnacle Books, 1976. Cover Art by Ben Stahl.

The bindings are tight and square. Text clean,  even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. No spine crease. First Printing, Thus.

Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey is a detective fiction novel by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 3,493 copies. The novel is part of Derleth's Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

Robert Bloch wrote of the series, "During a span of a century there have been literally hundreds of Sherlockian imitations, ranging from parody to direct duplication, but no one except August Derleth ever succeeded in capturing the essential charm of Doyle's original concept.

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