Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

Hi everyone, Belanger Books is accepting submissions for two exciting new anthologies, one will be a collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories and the other is a collection of new Solar Pons stories. Both books will be edited by the great David Marcum the author of The Papers of Solar Pons, New Adventures of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street  and the editor of the Belanger Books anthologies Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street , Holmes Away From Holmes: Adventures from the Great Hiatus Volume 1 , and Holmes Away From Holmes: Adventures from the Great Hiatus Volume 2 .  If you are an author or aspiring author, please consider submitting to either of these anthologies.  See the submission guidelines below. Anthology #1 - Sherlock Holmes: Canonical Sequels Continuing the success of recent Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes anthologies, “Holmes Away from Home” and “Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street”, both edited by David Marcum, stories are now being solicited for...

This is our last blog entry on gift ideas for the Sherlockian in your life.  Do you have someone who enjoys a quick read? Prefers a short book to a long one?  How about trying out a Sherlock Holmes novella! We have two great reads to offer you. Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Peculiar Provenance Winter, 1890. A deep freeze has fallen upon London, and its citizens remain huddled indoors. But the cogs of the criminal underworld never stop turning, and Holmes and Watson find themselves embroiled in a crime that rocks the centre of the art world. Sir Wellington is disturbed in the middle of the night, apprehending a thief attempting to steal his rare and valuable 14th portrait of King Edward III. In the kerfuffle that follows, the painting is set ablaze and the thief escapes. When the police track down the criminal to take him to the station, he is fatally shot by an unknown assailant. But the labyrinth of deceit grows even more impenetrable, as the p...

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 was for our own Sherlock Holmes books. This entry focuses on our children's books. Sherlock Holmes Children's Books We are best known for our line of Sherlock Holmes books. Here are some suggestions for the mystery lover of any age! The MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes Series What happens when two ten year old twin detectives team up with Sherlock Holmes? Find out in the MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes series! This series has been called, "great for introducing kids to Sherlock Holmes and his methods for solving mysteries. The Belanger brothers have evoked the period beautifully," (5 star review by Paula Berinstein ).  You can start th...

Hello and Happy Holidays! Over the next few weeks, we'll be spotlighting some of our favorite authors who we've been fortunate enough to work with. First and foremost is our good friend  David Marcum. A few months ago, I was having dinner with a friend and mentioned that Derrick and I were about to launch our Kickstarter campaign for The Papers of Solar Pons . I told him how excited we were to be working with Arkham House on the project, and that all the new stories were written by David Marcum. "YOU KNOW DAVID MARCUM?!?" My friend was shocked. "I love his stuff! He's one of the best Sherlockian writers out there!" David is a well-known Sherlockian author whose pastiches closely mirror the style and tone of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. His passion for the canon and his precise attention to detail made him a natural choice when it came to finding an editor for our anthologies. How passionate, you ask? One time, ...

Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells Now Available on Kickstarter Imagine Holmes trying to solve the case of an invisible man attacking London - matching wits with a traveler from out of time - tracking down a human/feline hybrid - using his deductive skills to help fight Martian and lunar invaders! These are just some of the stories included in the new anthology Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells . For this two volume collection of stories, we asked authors to tie Sherlock Holmes in with characters from at least one H.G. Wells story. Wells, though a writer of the fantastic, always tried to ground his writing in the possibilities of science.  The results are astounding! Read how Holmes deals with characters and scenarios from: The War of the Worlds The Island of Dr. Moreau The First Men in the Moon The Time Machine The Invisible Man The New Accelerator The Man Who Could Work Miracles The Country of the Blind And many more!!...

This article contains spoilers for both the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and the television show Twin Peaks, up through and including the end of both of these series.   Read on at your own peril… "Is it future or is it past?" --- The Man From Another Place, Twin Peaks “A few words may suffice to tell the little that remains.” --- John Watson, The Final Problem BRIAN:  There is nobody alive today who knows what it was like to read Doyle’s “The Final Problem” when it was first published.   According to all accounts, the shockwaves that this story sent throughout that era’s pop culture were devastating.   Holmes was dead!   Sherlock Holmes --- the Great Detective, champion of the oppressed, the one person who could always be counted on to solve the crime and bring justice to the wronged, be they privileged or poor.   His stories had regaled the readers of The Strand magazine for years; had become a very part of those ...