History Literature / SolarPons

** Some of the titles (i.e. ''The Adventure of The Orient Express'') are shout outs to other, more famous stories.

* MurderByTheMistake: In "The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman", the murderer arranged for his intended victim to enter an empty house. However, the intended victim was warned and did not turn up, but the eponymous salesman, looking for a place to spend the night, found the unlocked house and entered. He struck a match to look around and the killer fired at the match light.

** In "The Adventure of the sealed Spire", a country rector approaches Pons after being subjected to a series of malicious pranks designed to make him appear to be going insane, such as hiding his slippers in his secretary's typewriter and [[DeadAnimalWarning murdering a friend's cat and planting the corpse in the rector's holdall]].

* {{Gaslighting}}: In "The Adventure of the sealed Spire", a country rector approaches Pons after being subjected to a series of malicious pranks designed to make him appear to be going insane, such as hiding his slippers in his secretary's typewriter and [[DeadAnimalWarning murdering a friend's cat and planting the corpse in the rector's holdall]].

* AnimalAssassin: The murderer in "The Adventure of the Ipi Idol" kills one victim with a venomous insect (before the story) and makes attempts on the life of Pons' client with a tarantula and a green mamba.

After publication of ''The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'' in 1927, Creator/ArthurConanDoyle stated flatly that there would be no more Literature/SherlockHolmes stories, period the end. After waiting a year to see (Doyle had said such things at other times), the young Creator/AugustDerleth, then but a college freshman, wrote Doyle a letter asking whether, if it were indeed so that Holmes' career was over, Derleth could publish pastiche tales, though not purporting to be actual Holmes stories. Doyle, it seems, gave the project his blessing, and so was born Solar Pons.

* TheDeadGuyDeadIt: In "The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse", Pons tells Parker that the true killer has been decades: being the result of a revenge plot set up decades ago and allowed to continue after the instigator's death because no one else knew about it, until it eventually killed someone unconnected to the killer.

* {{Archenemy}}: Baron Ennesfred Kroll, the German spy who fullfills the Moriarty role.

** Some of the titles (ie, ''The Adventure of The Orient Express'') are shout outs to other, more famous stories.

* WhenTreesAttack: "The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson" features a creeper plant that is able to reach its vines through a window to strangle its victims.

* ManEatingPlant: The solution to one of the mysteries involves a killer vine that drains blood.

The tales in the Pontine canon (as the collected works are known) can be broadly divided into two classes, the straight and the humorous, the straight being more or less straightforward tales of detection in the classic Holmesian mode, while the others--a minority--have some gentle fun, most notably by involving fictional characters from outside either canon (most notably Dr. FuManchu, who recurs); perhaps the most outstanding example is "The Adventure of the Orient Express", in which we encounter, among others, very thinly disguised versions of [[Creator/WSomersetMaugham Ashenden]], Literature/HerculePoirot, and Literature/TheSaint.

* {{Crossover}}: Including one with the CthulhuMythos.

The tales in the Pontine canon (as the collected works are known) can be broadly divided into two classes, the straight and the humorous, the straight being more or less straightforward tales of detection in the classic Holmesian mode, while the others--a minority--have some gentle fun, most notably by involving fictional characters from outside either canon (most notably Dr. FuManchu, who recurs); perhaps the most outstanding example is "The Adventure of the Orient Express", in which we encounter, among others, very thinly disguised versions of [[Creator/JosephConrad Ashenden]], Literature/HerculePoirot, and Literature/TheSaint.

After publication of ''The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'' in 1927, Conan Doyle stated flatly that there would be no more SherlockHolmes stories, period the end. After waiting a year to see (Doyle had said such things at other times), the young AugustDerleth, then but a college freshman, wrote Doyle a letter asking whether, if it were indeed so that Holmes' career was over, Derleth could publish pastiche tales, though not purporting to be actual Holmes stories. Doyle, it seems, gave the project his blessing, and so was born Solar Pons.

The tales in the Pontine canon (as the collected works are known) can be broadly divided into two classes, the straight and the humorous, the straight being more or less straightforward tales of detection in the classic Holmesian mode, while the others--a minority--have some gentle fun, most notably by involving fictional characters from outside either canon (most notably Dr. FuManchu, who recurs); perhaps the most outstanding example is "The Adventure of the Orient Express", in which we encounter, among others, very thinly disguised versions of Ashenden, Hercule Poirot, and Literature/TheSaint.

* DiabolicalMastmermind: Kroll is the spymaster version of this.

After publication of ''The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'' in 1927, Conan Doyle stated flatly that there would be no more SherlockHolmes stories, period the end. After waiting a year to see (Doyle had said such things at other times), the young AugustDerleth, then but a college freshman, wrote Doyle a letter asking whether, if it were indeed so that Holmes' career was over, Derleth could publish pastiche tales, though not purporting to be actual Holmes stories. Doyle, it seems, gave the project his blessing, and so was born SolarPons.