Regarding Sherlock Holmes — August Derleth

In his Inverness cape Solar Pons steps briskly from No. 7B Praed Street onto the mist-shrouded cobblestones of old London's alleyways. Once again the game is afoot...

Over forty years ago the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle passed into the hand of nineteen-year-old August Derleth; with superb craftsmanship and Holmesian fervor the young author created the character Solar Pons.

Of this creation Derleth wrote: "Solar Pons came into being out of Sherlock Holmes...Solar Pons is Sherlock Holmes." At his death in 1971 Derleth had published over 130 books, including 6 complete collections of Solar Pons adventures.