# Three Problems for Solar Pons

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{{Short description|1952 collection of detective fiction short stories by August Derleth}}
{{Infobox book 
| name          = Three Problems for Solar Pons
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| image         = Three problems for solar pons.jpg
| caption       = Dust-jacket by Ronald Clyne.
| author        = [August Derleth](/source/August_Derleth)
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = [Ronald Clyne](/source/Ronald_Clyne)
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = [Solar Pons](/source/Solar_Pons)
| subject       = 
| genre         = [Detective fiction](/source/Detective_fiction) 
| publisher     = [Mycroft & Moran](/source/Mycroft_%26_Moran)
| release_date  = 1952
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| media_type    = Print (hardback)
| pages         = vii, 112 
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'''''Three Problems for Solar Pons''''' is a collection of [detective fiction](/source/detective_fiction) [short stories](/source/short_stories) by American writer [August Derleth](/source/August_Derleth).  It was released in [1952](/source/1952_in_literature) by [Mycroft & Moran](/source/Mycroft_%26_Moran) in an edition of 996 copies.  It was the third collection of Derleth's [Solar Pons](/source/Solar_Pons) stories which are [pastiches](/source/pastiches) of the [Sherlock Holmes](/source/Sherlock_Holmes) tales of [Arthur Conan Doyle](/source/Arthur_Conan_Doyle).  The book was intended as an interim collection and all the stories are reprinted in ''[The Return of Solar Pons](/source/The_Return_of_Solar_Pons)''.  Because of the low print run, it is the scarcest Mycroft & Moran book.

The dustjacket was by artist Ronald Clyne.

==Contents==

''Three Problems for Solar Pons'' contains the following tales:

# "A Note for the Aficionado"
# "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers"
# "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"
# "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty"

==Sources==

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*{{cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=179 | year=1999 | isbn=0-87054-176-5}}
*{{cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=150 | year=2004 | isbn=0-7864-1785-4}}

{{Works of August Derleth}}

Category:1952 short story collections
Category:Mystery short story collections
Category:Solar Pons
Category:Books by August Derleth

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