The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians

The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
cover by Frank Utpatel for The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
Author	August Derleth
Illustrator	Frank Utpatel
Cover artist	Frank Utpatel
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Solar Pons
Genre	Detective fiction short story
Publisher	Mycroft & Moran
Publication date	1968
Media type	Print (Chapbook)
Pages	38 pp
Preceded by	The Casebook of Solar Pons
Followed by	Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey

"The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians" is a detective fiction short story by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,012 copies. The chapbook is illustrated by Frank Utpatel. The story is part of Derleth's Solar Pons series of pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. It is a Christmas story about Ebenezer Snawley, an eccentric collector of Dickensiana who dresses in 19th-century clothing and is harassed by a man who bawls street cries near his dwelling. The story was eventually collected in The Chronicles of Solar Pons.

References

Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 91. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 845.
Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 182. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 153. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

Works of August Derleth

Solar Pons	In Re: Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Solar Pons Three Problems for Solar Pons The Return of Solar Pons The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey The Casebook of Solar Pons A Praed Street Dossier The Chronicles of Solar Pons The Solar Pons Omnibus The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Horror	Someone in the Dark Something Near Not Long for this World The Survivor and Others The Mask of Cthulhu Lonesome Places The Trail of Cthulhu Mr. George and Other Odd Persons Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People The Watchers Out of Time and Others Dwellers in Darkness In Lovecraft's Shadow The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H.P. Lovecraft)

Science Fiction	Harrigan's File

Short fiction	"The Lonesome Place" "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"

Biography	Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft

History	The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years Wisconsin Murders

Anthologies edited by	Sleep No More (editor) Who Knocks? The Night Side The Sleeping and the Dead Strange Ports of Call The Other Side of the Moon Beyond Time and Space Far Boundaries The Outer Reaches Beachheads in Space Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company Worlds of Tomorrow Portals of Tomorrow Time to Come Dark Mind, Dark Heart New Worlds for Old The Sleeping and the Dead The Time of Infinity The Unquiet Grave When Evil Wakes From Other Worlds Over the Edge Travellers by Night Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Dark Things New Horizons

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