The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians

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name = The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
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image_caption = 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
release_date = 1968
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Chapbook)
pages = 38 pp
isbn = NA
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 nineteenth-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".

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