Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

Our latest blog update features our current Kickstarter project and a call for submissions to THREE new anthologies! Read on to learn more: The Cases of SHERLOCK HOLMES and SOLAR PONS Throughout the Solar Pons Canon, there are references to Sherlock Holmes. For long decades, Pons fans and scholars have speculated on the connection between the two. Now, after all this time – nearly one-hundred years since the last Canonical Holmes story was published and Derleth recorded the first Pons tale – Belanger Books proudly presents the stories that provide answers. The Cases of Sherlock Holmes and Solar Pons Volumes I and II contain eighteen new adventures by some of today’s best Holmesian and Ponsian authors: Sean Venning, Thomas A. Burns, Jr., John Linwood Grant, Naching T. Kassa, Andrew Salmon, David Marcum, Derrick Belanger, Mark Mower, Harry DeMaio, Nick Cardillo, Thaddeus Tuffentsamer, Jayantika Ganguly, Chris Chan, Stephen Herczeg, Robert Stapleton, and I.A. Watson, with additional mater...

Belanger Books continues to offer free weekly eBooks during the month of April to provide reading material for those of you currently under lock down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. For this week, we have both a free Sherlock Holmes children's eBook and a free Solar Pons eBook . This is alo the last week for students (and adults) to submit a story for In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (details below). This Week's Free eBooks The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Once more the most successful of pastiche-detectives, Solar Pons, walks on stage with a new sequence of adventures. In this fourth major collection, Solar Pons is engaged with an intriguing variety of problems — the curious puzzle of the antique sovereign boxes narrated in the novelette, "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"; the sanguine riddle of the body in the thirteenth coffin told in "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"; the perplexing matter of the man devoted t...

Belanger Books continues to offer free weekly eBooks during the month of April to provide reading material for those of you currently under lock down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. For this week, we have both a free Sherlock Holmes eBook and a free Solar Pons eBook . For a brief 48 hour period, we also have the illustrated steampunk novella The Voyage of the Lunar Schooner for a free download.  This Week's Free eBooks The Papers of Solar Pons 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...

Dear readers, As you know the Covid-19 Virus has upended life throughout the world. With many schools now closed for weeks, we wanted to offer an activity for students and parents alike to complete at home as well as free eBooks to help pass the time away at home. Each week for the remainder of March and into April we will have at least one eBook available for free on Amazon. The books will come from our catalog of Sherlock Holmes, Solar Pons, sci-fi, and children's books.  This week, we have three FREE books. One is a Sherlock Holmes book, one a Solar Pons book, and one a story collection for children. Before we tell you the titles currently available, we want to let you know of a writing contest perfect for students and adults alike. In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson Have you ever wanted to write a mystery? Ever wanted to have your writing published in a book read all over the world. Now is your opportunity!  Belanger Books is acce...