Introducing Our First Sherlock Holmes Game, Now on Kickstarter! PLUS a FREE Sherlock Holmes eBook and a Sherlock Holmes Advent Calendar

Introducing The Great Game of Sherlock Holmes

Hi everyone,

I want to start this blog post with exciting news! Now on Kickstarter is the first ever Sherlock Holmes game from Belanger Books. The Great Game of Sherlock Holmes is an easy to learn card game similar to Pokemon and Top Trumps. It is fast paced, fun, and features all 60 stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon!

Each card covers one story and features a vintage illustration originally published in London's Strand Magazine.    

There's a brief synopsis of each crime-cracking chronicle which will jog the memories of lifelong Sherlockians, or provide an exciting first dip into Holmes's adventures for newcomers.  A vast and exhilarating universe of deduction and master storytelling -- still years ahead of its time -- will fall open for you! 

Game Play is simple. Each player is given an equal number of random cards.  All players pick the top card from their own piles.

Player One selects the highest ranking statistic from the card and lays the card down, announcing the category and that category's value: "MYSTERY 10," "DEDUCTION 8," etc.  The rest of the players follow suit, laying down their cards for that round.  Whoever has the highest number for that category wins all the cards presented, which are then placed at the bottom of the winner's pile.  The winner of that hand plays next. 

Sherlock Holmes Fun Facts and Puzzle Magazine

When you back The Great Game of Sherlock Holmes on Kickstarter, you not only get a fun card game, you also get a puzzle book filled with Sherlock Holmes, facts, games, and puzzles.

Like The Great Game of Sherlock Holmes, the Fun Facts & Puzzle Magazine covers many of the classic cases in the Sherlockian canon.  Word Finds, mazes, crossword puzzles and other mental challenges abound to excite and entertain the most diligent detectives! 

There are some amazing stretch goals as well including a bonus Reichenbach challenge game plus a series of cards based on the Apocrypha stories of Sherlock Holmes. See the rewards and back the project to day by CLICKING HERE!

Sherlock Holmes Advent Calendar

As if having one exiting Sherlock Holmes Kickstarter wasn't enough, we also have a SECOND Kickstarter project in August which is a joint venture with MX Publishing.

A crime a day for the entire Advent season – and a convicted crook at the end of each successful investigation. Mr. Holmes’ Advent Calendar Vol. 1 and 2 each come packed with 24 new short crime stories for you to solve. 

Step into the shoes of the master detective, follow the clues, decipher codes, check alibis and unravel the mystery before the end of the day. Then turn the page to find the solution and a new case waiting for you. Great Christmas crime-cracking fun!

"The authors of the calendar have developed these little stories in an entertaining, humorous and clever way, in a suitably old-fashioned style with contemporary language and an atmospheric setting, without disregarding the playful relationship between the main characters." – Erlanger Nachrichten Newspaper

Check out the advent calendars and other fun rewards by CLICKING HERE!

Free Sherlock Holmes eBook

Throughout the month of August, we will resume our weekly posting of free eBooks. As the coronavirus pandemic has no end in sight, more and more people are going back under lock down and need reading material. For those of you Sherlock Holmes fans, tis week we are offering the Kindle edition of Sherlock Holmes Adventures Beyond the Canon Volume 1 absolutely FREE.

From the book description:

Sherlock Holmes himself would have us believe that, once a case was finished, it – or the people involved – never crossed his mind again. “A client is to me a mere unit,” he once told Watson, “a factor in a problem.” And yet, in a career spanning multiple decades and thousands of cases, he must have occasionally re-crossed paths with previous clients – and the occasional villain as well!This anthology, with twenty-nine brand new stories, spread over three volumes, reveals some of those sequel investigations. There are stories ranging from Holmes’s early days in Montague Street, through the legendary Baker Street years, and well into his retirement. We meet former clients with new problems, and former adversaries too. Sometimes we find that the published Canonical version of a story was only the beginning, while other tales in this collection reveal what was really going on during the original narratives.Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes, described by the estimable Dr. Watson as “ . . . the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known.”

Get the first volume of this incredible collection of sequel stories by CLICKING HERE!

That's all for this blog post. We will have a post later this week when Belanger Books launches our first ever Indiegogo project, a Sherlock Holmes young adult short story collection that is a fundraiser for the Beacon Society.

Look for that project launch soon!

Belanger Books is a small press owned by artist Brian Belanger and author Derrick Belanger specializing in new Sherlock Holmes books, Solar Pons, Children's books, Classic Sci-fi, Steampunk, and genre specific anthologies.  Some of our books have been #1 bestsellers in their categories on Amazon.