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Going Out with a Bang! Large Number of Free Sherlock Holmes and Solar Pons eBooks for this Week, Author Interview with David Marcum and Paul Hiscock on Sherlock Holmes and the Great Detectives, and the Latest Episode from The Doings of Doyle Podcast

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Hi everyone, This will be our last FREE eBook blog update for a little while. To help those locked down at home during he Covid-19 crisis, we have been offering free eBooks each week for March and April. In that time, we have given away thousands of free books. My hope is that those of you who have been following the blog each week and getting books now have a small library of Belanger Books titles which will help get you through the last couple of weeks of lock down.  For today we are going out with a bang by offering TWO FREE Solar Pons eBooks, TWO FREE Sherlock Holmes ebooks, PLUS four additional  FREE Sherlock Holmes eBooks from author Dick Gillman . This Week's Free eBooks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson:The Early Adventures (Vol. III) Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson:The Early Adventures (Vol. III) This volume, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Early Adventures, is an amazing collection of some of Holmes and Watson’s fascinating cases that occur

Fight the Covid-19 Blues with Free Sherlock Holmes and Solar Pons eBooks; Last Chance to Submit a Story for In The Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes Author Interviews; and Great Sherlock Holmes Projects on Kickstarter

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Belanger Books continues to offer free weekly eBooks during the month of April to provide reading material for those of you currently under lock down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. For this week, we have both a free Sherlock Holmes children's eBook and a free Solar Pons eBook . This is alo the last week for students (and adults) to submit a story for In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (details below). This Week's Free eBooks The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Once more the most successful of pastiche-detectives, Solar Pons, walks on stage with a new sequence of adventures. In this fourth major collection, Solar Pons is engaged with an intriguing variety of problems — the curious puzzle of the antique sovereign boxes narrated in the novelette, "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"; the sanguine riddle of the body in the thirteenth coffin told in "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"; the perplexing matter of the man devoted t

Free Sherlock Holmes and Solar Pons eBooks for the week; Two new stretch goals for Sherlock Holmes and the Great detectives on Kickstarter; Author interview with Sherlockian Thaddeus Tuffentsamer; and The Strand reviews Sherlock Holmes is Everywhere!

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Belanger Books continues to offer free weekly eBooks during the month of April to provide reading material for those of you currently under lock down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. For this week, we have both a free Sherlock Holmes eBook and a free Solar Pons eBook . For a brief 48 hour period, we also have the illustrated steampunk novella The Voyage of the Lunar Schooner for a free download.  This Week's Free eBooks The Papers of Solar Pons Solar Pons was created by August Derleth in the 1920s as a continuation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Derleth, who famously created Arkham House Publishing to preserve the writings of his friend, author HP Lovecraft, had corresponded with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking whether Doyle would be providing any new Holmes adventures. When Doyle said no, Derleth determined to write some himself. However, instead of writing more Holmes tales, Derleth came up with Solar Pons, a detective very similar to Holmes, and Dr. Lyndon Parker