History Literature / SolarPons

* CrammingTheCoffin: In "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue", the killer stashes the body of his victim inside an isolated family crypt. Only the unexpected death of a member of the family, necessitating the opening of the crypt, exposes the crime.

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

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The stories often feature these by famous characters from detective fiction:
** For example, "The Adventure of the Orient Express" features an appearance by an unnamed young adventurer who is unmistakably Literature/TheSaint. That same story also includes a moustachioed Frenchman named [[Literature/HerculePoirot Hercule "Poiret"]], an aged spy named [[Creator/WSomersetMaugham Ashenten]], and an unnamed character implied to be Literature/BulldogDrummond.
** One of Pons' recurring adversaries was a [[YellowPeril Chinese master criminal]] referred to only as "[[Literature/FuManchu the Doctor]]".
** Pons' mentor is Literature/SherlockHolmes himself, addressed as the Master, since Doyle's stories weren't yet in the public domain. (However, since the copyright on the original Holmesian canon has lapsed, some of the post-Derleth Pons stories have paired the two Great Detectives together properly.)

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The stories often feature these by famous characters from detective fiction. For example, "The Adventure of the Orient Express" features an appearance by an unnamed young adventurer who is unmistakably Literature/TheSaint. That same story also includes a moustachioed Frenchman named [[Literature/HerculePoirot Hercule "Poiret"]], an aged spy named [[Creator/WSomersetMaugham Ashenten]], and an unnamed character implied to be Literature/BulldogDrummond.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The stories often feature these by famous characters from detective fiction. For example, "The Adventure of the Orient Express" features an appearance by an unnamed young adventurer who is unmistakably Literature/TheSaint. There is also an appearancce by a moustachioed Frenchman named [[Literature/HerculePoirot Hercule ''Poiret'']], an aged spy named [[Creator/WSomersetMaugham Ashenten]], and an unnamed character implied to be Literature/BulldogDrummond.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The stories often feature these by famous characters from detective fiction. For example, "The Adventure of the Orient Express" features an appearance by an unnamed young adventurer who is unmistakably Literature/TheSaint.

* ExpyCoexistence: Sherlock exists as a separate character in-universe.

* SelfDeprecation: In "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders", Pons tells Parker that the catalogue of a sale of supposedly rare occult books is fake because the books listed are from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, or, as he puts it, "All of these books have a precarious existence only in the writings of certain minor authors of American origin, all apparently followers, in a minor way, of Creator/EdgarAllenPoe". One of these "minor authors" is Creator/AugustDerleth.

* SelfDeprecation: In "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders", Pons tells Parker that the catalogue of a sale of supposedly rare occult books is fake because the books listed are from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, or, as he puts it "All of these books have a precarious existence only in the writings of certain minor authors of American origin, all apparently followers,in a minor way, of Creator/EdgarAllenPoe". One of these "minor authors"is Creator/AugustDerleth.

* AnachronisticClue: In "The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlane", Pons identifies a supposed first edition of ''Tamerlane and Other Poems'' by Creator/EdgarAllenPoe--first published in 1827--as a forgery because the paper is made from chemically treated wood pulp, not used until the 1880s, and the typeface lacks the kerns which were standard until the 1880s.

* AnachronisticClue: In "The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlane", Pons identifies a supposed first edition of ''Tamerlane and Other Poems'' by Creator/EdgarAllenPoe--first published in 1827--as a forgery because the paper is made from wood pulp, not used until the 1880s, and the typeface lacks the kerns which were standard until the 1880s.

* ConvenientPhotograph: In "The Adventure of the Perplexed Photographer", a photographer taking photos of the facade of a mansion for a real estate agent happens to catch the murderer standing at the window. [[spoiler:The lace curtains make the figure unidentifiable, but Pons is able to use the photo's existence--and that the killer does not know whatt it shows--in BluffingTheMurderer into confessing.]]

* AnachronisticClue: In "The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlane'', Pons identifies a supposed first edition of ''Tamerlane and Other Poems'' by Creator/EdgarAllenPoe--first published in 1827--as a forgery because the paper is made from wood pulp, not used until the 1880s, and the typeface lacks the kerns,which were standard until the 1880s.

* SelfDeprecation: In "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders", Pons tells Parker that the catalogue of a sale of supposedly rare occult books is fake because the books listed are from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, or, as he puts it "All of these books have a precarious existence only in the writings of certain minor authors of American origin, all apparently followers,in a minor way, of Creator/EdgarAllenPoe". One of these "minor authors"is Creator/AugustDerleth.

* TakeThatMe: In "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders", Pons tells Parker that the catalogue of a sale of supposedly rare occult books is fake because the books listed are from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, or, as he puts it "All of these books have a precarious existence only in the writings of certain minor authors of American origin, all apparently followers,in a minor way, of Creator/EdgarAllenPoe". One of these "minor authors"is Creator/AugustDerleth.

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