Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

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...

Free eBooks for Veteran's Day Hi everyone,  In honor of Veteran's Day in America, Belanger Books always donates a portion of our sales to  The Fisher House Foundation . The Fisher House Foundation is a nonprofit which builds comfort homes where military & veterans families can stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital. Belanger Books has now donated hundreds of dollars to their cause. What we do: For Veteran's Day, we donate a portion of our royalties to The Fisher House Foundation from all of our book sales (ebook, paperback, and hard cover).  To help the Fisher House, please consider purchasing one of our books, or donating directly to The Fisher House Foundation at this  link . This year, we are offering a select few of our eBook editions for free. Why would we give away our books? We find that by giving away free ebooks, people often come back and either buy the paperback version of the book or purchase additional eBo...

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...

Hello everyone, We've got quite a few exciting projects to share with you.  First, I want to thank everyone who backed Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk on Kickstarter.  The two volume anthology of stories where the traditional Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in a world of technological advancements was one of our biggest Kickstarters to date. For those of you who missed the Kickstarter the books will be available on Amazon in May. Stay tuned for more details! MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Vols XIII, XIV, XV And speaking of Kickstarters, our friends at MX publishing have a set of books that every Sherlock Holmes fan needs! The MX Books of New Sherlock Holmes Stories have been called the best collections of Sherlock Holmes stories since Watson penned the original canon.  Thanks to the editorial skills of David Marcum and the sheer number of excellent pastiche authors in the world, this year's entry contains a ...