Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

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...

If you are a Sherlock Holmes fan (and if you are reading this blog, you must be), you should be well aware that the greatest collections of Sherlock Holmes stories published since the original canon are the volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories.  I am proud to have stories in over half of the volumes (Volumes I, IV, V, VI, and VIII to be exact and a poem in the forthcoming Volume IX). These volumes contain new traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches and the caliber of the stories is incredible. As a bonus, all the proceeds from the sales of the books go to the Stepping Stones School at Undershaw.  This is a school for special needs students housed at the former estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Currently available on Kickstarter  is Eliminate the Impossible, which contains Volumes VII and VIII of the MX books.  These stories are a treat in that they have to deal with the supernatural though they still have to have some connection to the rationale...

Belanger Books will continue to showcase author interviews as part of our blog, and today we have an excellent author interview with Richard T. Ryan on his latest book The Stone of Destiny: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure . A lifelong Sherlockian, Richard Ryan is the author of The Official Sherlock Holmes Trivia Book as well as a book on Agatha Christie trivia . His first novel, The Vatican Cameos: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure , is available from MX Publishing, London. It was recently announced that Mr. Ryan has accepted the position of MX Publishing's full time editor.  We interviewed Mr. Ryan on his latest novel  The Stone of Destiny: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure  which is released from MX Publishing today. Belanger Books (BB): Tell us a little bit about your latest Holmes book The Stone of Destiny? Will readers get a traditional Sherlock Holmes adventure? Richard T. Ryan (RR): The Stone of Destiny finds Holmes and Watson trying to recover the Coronation Stone after ...