The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich

"The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich" is a detective short story by author Basil Copper. It first appeared in Copper's collection The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons in 1979, but Copper disapproved of the way that it was edited. Copper's preferred text was published as a chapbook in 1995 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 1,000 copies of which 950 were distributed to the guests at Bouchercon where Copper was a guest of honor. The chapbook also includes an interview with Copper by R. Dixon Smith. The story is about Solar Pons, a character originally created by August Derleth. Derleth's Pons stories are themselves pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich
Cover of the first edition
AuthorBasil Copper
IllustratorStefanie K. Hawks
Cover artistStefanie K. Hawks
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSolar Pons
GenreDetective short story
PublisherFedogan & Bremer
Publication date
1995
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages44, vi pp

Contents edit

  • "The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich"
  • "A Conversation With Basil Copper", by R. Dixon Smith
  • "A Brief Note on Solar Pons"

References edit

  • Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)". Retrieved 2008-03-28.
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 254.