Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

  Hi everyone,   It is a busy August for Belanger Books! We currently have three Sherlock Holmes related crowdfunding campaigns. On Kickstarter we have the new card game  The Great Game of Sherlock Holmes  as well as a campaign for two  Sherlock Holmes Advent Calendars . We also are running our first ever Indiegogo campaign for the anthology  In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson . Unlike Kickstarter, Indiegogo allows us to run a crowdfunding campaign that is a charity fundraiser. In this case, we are raising funds for the Beacon Society. Read more about the campaign below: In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson Belanger Books is proud to present a collection of seventeen all new Sherlock Holmes stories written specifically for young adults. The anthology contains some of the best known Sherlockian authors as well as first time young adult authors. The story collection is written by professional writers such as  David Marc...

Hi everyone, This will be our last FREE eBook blog update for a little while. To help those locked down at home during he Covid-19 crisis, we have been offering free eBooks each week for March and April. In that time, we have given away thousands of free books. My hope is that those of you who have been following the blog each week and getting books now have a small library of Belanger Books titles which will help get you through the last couple of weeks of lock down.  For today we are going out with a bang by offering TWO FREE Solar Pons eBooks, TWO FREE Sherlock Holmes ebooks, PLUS four additional  FREE Sherlock Holmes eBooks from author Dick Gillman . This Week's Free eBooks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson:The Early Adventures (Vol. III) Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson:The Early Adventures (Vol. III) This volume, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Early Adventures, is an amazing collection of some of Holmes and Watson’s fascinating cases that ...

Dear Readers, The Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the world. We know most of you are confined to your homes, and some of you and/or your loved ones may be dealing with the virus firsthand. We hope you are all safe and our thoughts and prayers go out to you.   Belanger Books is committed to providing you with free eBooks and activities throughout March and April to help you in some small way through this difficult time.   Free Sherlock Holmes eBooks This week's free eBooks have one Sherlock Holmes book for kids and one for adults.  The books are available for free download from Amazon from March 30th- April 3rd. Digby, a London street dog, hopes he can find a crumb of food and maybe a warm place to sleep around the next corner. Instead, he finds himself face-to-face with the Great Detective himself, Sherlock Holmes! Digby is thrilled. He decides to prove his worth to Holmes by helping him solve his latest case. However, Digby ...

Belanger Books  is excited to bring you a new anthology of mystery short stories for student readers inspired by the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The anthology is titled In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and will feature stories by student writers as well as professional authors. Net proceeds will go to the Beacon Society to help them expose more students to the original Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as well as newer stories about the great detective. Requirements:  All entries must be mysteries inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories. The mysteries can be traditional Sherlock Holmes stories, modern versions of Sherlock Holmes, original detective stories with characters similar to Holmes and Watson, or anything in between. The stories just need to clearly be inspired by the Sherlock Holmes canon. Each submission should be at least 1,000 words in length , and be rated "PG" (i.e. suitable for a school li...

This is a pretty jam packed update. We've got a lot going on at Belanger Books! The Irregular Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Now on Kickstarter ! The First Ever Collection of Traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories Specifically Written for Young Adults! Belanger Books is proud to present a new collection of over twenty traditional Sherlock Holmes stories written specifically for young adults -- including a brand-new MACDOUGALL TWINS adventure! The story collection is written by professional writers such as David Marcum (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes stories), Derrick Belanger (Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Seven), Elizabeth Varadan (Imogene and the Case of the Missing Pearls), Will Murray (creator of Marvel Comics Squirrel Girl),  Rob Nunn (The Criminal Mastermind of Baker Street), Robert Perret (Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street),  Peter Eckrich, Dick Gillman (Sherlock Holmes, The Collector's Edition), Kieran Judge, and Derek Nason (Sherlock Holmes: Adventures...