'Tis the Season for Sherlock Holmes!
Happy Holidays everyone! Nothing is more appreciated as a a gift than a great book. For your holiday shopping, we wanted to highlight some goodies from the Belanger Books catalog. We will be posting blog updates from or own catalog as well as some books from our friends over the next few weeks. The first entry is for our own Sherlock Holmes books. Our next entry will focus on our children's books.
Sherlock Holmes
We are best known for our line of Sherlock Holmes books. Here are some suggestions for the mystery lover.Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street
For those who want to start at the beginning, here is a collection of new stories highlighting some of Holmes's earliest cases.
221b Baker Street! Just the mention of those words is enough to suggest mystery and adventure and heroism. Over many years, this humble London address was the destination of so many people – clients and policemen, the rich and the poor, those needing help and those with a secret. This famed location is known all over the world, for it’s the one most associated with the legendary . . . Sherlock Holmes!
But there was a time before Sherlock Holmes moved to Baker Street, before his fame had grown, when he was still learning his craft and struggling to create his unique profession – the first of its kind – Consulting Detective!
Join some of the finest Sherlockian writers as they explore those early days Before Baker Street. Read about when Holmes was still a boy, learning from his older brother Mycroft, or later, when he had moved to London, living in Montague Street, just 'round the corner from the British Museum, waiting for the next adventure to begin . . . . The Game is afoot!
SHERLOCK HOLMES: BEFORE BAKER STREET features contributions by: Jayantika Ganguly, Robert Perret, S. Subramanian, David Marcum, Arthur Hall, S.F. Bennett, Derrick Belanger, Daniel D. Victor, Mark Mower, Geri Schear, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a foreword by Steven Rothman
Get your copy here.
The Papers of Solar Pons
The Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street Returns! We are proud to have published the first collection of new Solar Pons stories in the 21st Century. Fully backed by Arkham House and the estate of August Derleth!
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, his Dr. Watson. Eventually, between the 1920’s and his death in 1971, Derleth wrote over seventy Pons tales, set in that period between the end of World War I and 1939.
“Now, meet Solar Pons, the Pride of Praed Street . . . The Master is not too visible – that is, to the naked eye. But you will feel his dynamic presence once again . . . Yes, dear reader, but turn a page, and again – the game is afoot!” – Ellery Queen
Bestselling Sherlock Holmes author David Marcum continues The Pontine Canon with twelve new Pons adventures.
Holmes Away From Home, Adventures From the Great Hiatus Volume I: 1891-1892
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Holmes Away From Home, Adventures From the Great Hiatus Volume II: 1893-1894
This two volume anthology follows Sherlock Holmes during the Great Hiatus, the time when he faked his death and spent years traveling the globe. Read about his adventures on several continents in this amazing collection!
Sherlock Holmes! The very name of the world’s greatest detective conjures up images of Victorian London, gaslit streets, hansom cabs, and dense fogs. But there was a time, a dark three-year period, when London had to make do without Sherlock Holmes. From 1891 to 1894, he was presumed to be dead, having perished during the epic struggle with that infamous Napoleon of Crime, Professor Moriarty, atop the Reichenbach Falls. But unknown to most, even his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes survived. During those three years, he roamed the world, acting as an agent for the British Government and using his very special skills along the way. In Volume 1 of Holmes Away From Home, the incredible two-volume collection of new traditional Holmes adventures, we find Our Hero criss-crossing the world – Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. During this period known as The Great Hiatus, Holmes may have been in disguise, but there is no mistaking the person that Watson described as “. . . the best and wisest man whom I have ever known.” The game is afoot!
Both volumes are available on Amazon!
The Secret Diary of Mycroft Holmes: The Thoughts and Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes’s Elder Brother, 1880-1888
This is our best selling and best reviewed book! Read the day to day life of Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older and wiser brother!
“If Samuel Pepys could fill nine years’ worth of journals with tales of arguments with his wife, visits to the theatres, fire and plague, then I am fairly confident I should be able to achieve a similar feat – with the exception of the plague, that is.”
Thus begins Mycroft Holmes’s valiant, if irregular, attempt to chronicle his doings. Rediscovered in 1976 and now fully translated from an obscure code, Mycroft’s diaries reveal that a brother’s lot is not always a happy one, especially when that brother happens to be London’s only consulting detective. In this humorous look at the world of Sherlock Holmes through Mycroft’s eyes, between avoiding amorous cleaning ladies and eccentric family members, appeasing hopeless artists and budding novelists, keeping the peace at the Diogenes and minding doting dogs, one question always remains: will Sherlock ever get a proper job?
Devon-based journalist and lecturer, S.F. Bennett has written for the Baker Street Journal and the Journal of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, amongst others. This is the author's first novel.
Available on Amazon! Audio Version coming soon!
And our last book for this blog entry is the one that started it all for us!
Beyond Watson: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology of Stories NOT Told by Dr. John H. Watson
Imagine a Holmes Without his Boswell... or, as is the case with the volume you now hold in your hands, imagine a Holmes without the voice of Watson. Is there a difference? After all, we have learned about the great detective not through his own voice and eyes, but through that of his loyal companion, his dear friend, his Boswell. What might we be missing?
Who else could tell of the great detective’s feats? Find out as today's best Sherlock Holmes authors including Derrick Belanger, Luke Kuhns, Kieran Lyne, David Marcum, Jack McDevitt, Richard Paolinelli, David Ruffle, Geri Schear, Don Smith, Elizabeth Varadan, Daniel Victor, and Marcia Wilson tell stories from the perspectives of: Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Colonel Sebastian Moran, Raymond Chandler, Inspector Lestrade, Winston Churchill, Violet Hunter, Henry Mencken and many others...
Experience Holmes like never before as you go Beyond Watson! Includes a special introductory toast from Mark Levy, BSI
Available on Amazon!
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