Thanksgiving Weekend eBook Giveaway! Get FIVE FREE eBooks available from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday!

 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We wanted to say thank you to you, our readers and fans, by giving away five FREE eBooks on Amazon from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday. 

 See the links to the books below. 

Before we get to the FREE eBooks, we also want to let you know about our current Kickstarter campaign. This one features a very cool new Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Book as well as something for Solar Pons fans.

Steel True, Blade Straight & Pontine Dossier 2024/5 editions

This all new jumbo sized journal is divided into two sections. The first half includes all new stories, poems, and scholarship focused on the writings and life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The second half of the journal features all new Sherlock Holmes centered stories, poems, and essays. The Sherlock Holmes stories are traditional and written in the Watsonian voice.

Selections from the Doyle section include an all new Professor Challenger story which is a sequel to The Lost World; an all new Brigadier Girard romantic comedy, and a touching story involving Sir Arthur himself from acclaimed author Margie Deck.

Selections from the Sherlock Holmes section include an all new adventure teaming the great detective and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,  a mystery told in letters between Holmes and a detective in New South Wales, a list of male and female criminal teams in the Canon, poems on the detective and his creator, and essays on alcohol in the Holmes stories as well as an investigation into the relevance of the Canon today.

Table of Contents:

A New Life for the Fiend by Stephen Herczeg (poem)

How the Brigadier Saved the Duke and Won the Love of the Russian Hussars by Allyn Gibson (story)

Jean Leckie: From “Mistress” to Medium by Anna Brindisi Behrens, ACDS (essay)

One on a Lonesome Road by Margie Deck, ACDS (story)

The Rabbi’s Rebuttal by Shana C. Carter, ACDS (essay)

Doyle’s Dinosaur by Paul Hiscock, ACDS (story)

At the Crossroads of Fate by Daniel and Eugene Friedman (poem)

The Adventure of the Amateur Hangman by Kel Richards (story)

The Repetitious Client by Frank Coffman (poem)

Moriarty the Patriot: a Primer for a Unique Universe by Frank Schildiner (essay)

The Death at Canfield Old Manor by David N. Cisler (story)

Doctor Watson Reminisces on the Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes by Paul A. Freeman (poem)

The Adventure of the Unique Interpreter by Nick Dunn-Meynell (essay)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by George Skornickel, BSI (poem)

Female and Male Criminal Teams in the Canon by Ron Lies (list)

The Magic Portal by Frank Coffman (poem)

The Man with the Stolen Luck by David Marcum, ACDS (story)

Through a Glass Darkly by Mark Mower (essay)

Magnusson’s Descent by Hernán Salvarezza (story)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by George Skornickel, BSI (poem)

Is Sherlock Holmes on the Scrapheap of History? by G. Benjamin White (essay)

The Doctor’s Lament by Naching T. Kassa (poem)

No Ghosts Need Apply by George Skornickel BSI (essay)

Edited by Derrick Belanger, BSI, ACDS

The Kickstarter also includes....

The Pontine Dossier: Millennium Edition

We continue that tradition of Solar Pons scholarship with The Pontine Dossier, Millennium Edition. Read essays on August Derleth and Solar Pons by today's top Pontine scholars as they analyze the "Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street."

"The Game" is afoot!

The 2024-5 volume is edited by Derrick Belanger and features essays by Praed Street Irregulars Chris Chan, David Marcum, Brett Graham Fawcett, Stephen Herczeg and Derrick Belanger

Also, please consider buying a copy of our latest Sherlock Holmes book where a portion of the proceeds are donated to Dr. Watson's Neglected Patients, a 501(c)3 scion society dedicated to spreading the Sherlock Holmes canon throughout Colorado and the Rocky Mountain west!

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas

An Advent Calendar of Twelve All New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas is a collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories to be read over the holiday season (i.e. from December 1st to December 26th). Each story is divided into two sections. The first day provides the case to the reader. The second day provides the ending. You get to think like Sherlock Holmes and see if you can solve the case before reading the thrilling conclusion. You can get your copy by CLICKING HERE!

And now the FREE eBooks!

No Holidays for Sherlock Holmes

From the creative team that brought you the Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Mystery series comes an all new anthology featuring Sherlock Holmes stories that connect to holidays throughout the year.

This anthology features some of the best known Sherlock Holmes authors today including David Marcum, Katy Darby, Geri Schear, Shelby Phoenix, Steve Herczeg, Will Murray, Greg Maughn, S.F. Bennett, Kevin Thornton, Derrick Belanger, Lee Shackleford, Hassan Akram, David Stuart Davies, and Gustavo Bondoni

Plus, a cover by The Strand and Sherlock Holmes: a Year of Mystery artist Jeffrey McKeever!

Introduction by Nicholas Meyer, author of The Seven Percent Solution

With Remarkable Cunning: The Manservant of Merripit House and other tales of Sherlock Holmes

Ten new Sherlock Holmes adventures from award-winning author Margie Deck!

Plotlines, references, characters, and themes from various classic cases are brought together here in new pastiches.

From the introduction:

"What is found here is Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson doing what they do best and doing it together. The stories cover a period from mid-1890 through to the beginning of 1919—a long time of cooperation and companionship. They are colleagues and the best of friends who work together to resolve the mysteries at hand."

The Chronicles of Solar Pons

When August Derleth died on July 4, 1971, he had written and finished revising all the stories for The Chronicles of Solar Pons. The manuscript lay on his desk, ready for final typing.This, then, is the... last major collection of the Pontine series. However much the reader may regret bidding goodbye to a cherished friend of more than forty years’ constance, the ten tales presented here make for a fine and fitting exit.The range and variety of the puzzle-problems are wide. There is the classic flight-and-pursuit motif of the espionage thriller, The Adventure of the Orient Express. The strangeness of The Adventure of the Benin Bronze and the grim search in The Adventure of the Missing Tenants are matched by the long and tangled web behind The Adventure of the Red Leech.Whether enjoyed as pure entertainment, or for the exercise of nimble minds in an attempt to outwit Solar Pons, the reader will find in these pages an additional reward: the easy flow of a prose style that is the hallmark of a superior craftsman.– From the original 1973 Mycroft & Moran edition dust jacket

Alone on the Borderland

An anthology of new, strange and weird fiction, from the dawn of the 20th century through the aftermath of the Great War.

Seventeen new, unsettling and strange stories set between 1901 and 1919 – from the death of Queen Victoria to the immediate aftermath of the Great War and the Spanish Influenza epidemic. This is classic Weird Fiction, subverting many standard tropes, with strong psychological components, evoking Edwardian dread.

Edited by John Linwood Grant (The Book of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives, Occult Detective Quarterly)

The Detective and the Clergyman: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown

Sherlock Holmes: A man who needs no introduction. The Greatest Detective of them all. The Master of observation and deduction.

Father Brown: Roman Catholic Priest and Great Detective . . . Sometimes called the counter to Sherlock Holmes due to his use of intuition when solving cases.

Holmes’s career overlapped that of Father Brown, and they would certainly known and worked with one another. Now, for the first time, Belanger Books presents a new collection in their Great Detective series, solely dedicated to the shared adventures of The Detective and the Clergyman.

Seventeen new stories, ranging from one of Father Brown’s earliest investigations, in the 1880’s during the heights of Holmes’s career, to tales set in the years during and after World War I. Join us as we journey from the gaslit alleys of London to obscure and dangerous spots on the Continent – along with Dr. John Watson and Hercule Flambeau as well!

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays everyone!

Sincerely,

Brian and Derrick Belanger

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.