Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

Derrick Belanger will be defending the HBO show Miss Sherlock during The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate There are currently a lot of cool happenings in the Sherlock Holmes community, so I'm just going to dive right in and let you know about them. Mark your calendars for these awesome events and book releases! The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate (May 25th) On May 25th, Derrick will be defending the HBO show "Miss Sherlock" in The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate. This event will be both online and at the Stepping Stones School in England. Here is the event description: Sherlock Holmes holds the world record for the character most portrayed on screen – but have we gone too far? There are dozens of adaptations and Sherlockian experts from around the world have 1 slide and 90 seconds to defend a Sherlock adaptation. BBC Sherlock, Elementary, Granada Studios, Warner Brothers, Sherlock Gnomes, Pokemon Sherlock, Will Ferrell's Sherlock and many others will be argued fo...

Our big announcement for today comes in conjunction with the Junior Sherlockian Society , a program of The Beacon Society , a scion society of The Baker Street Irregulars .  The Junior Sherlockian Society invites children and youth to complete Junior Sherlockian Training- an in-depth study of Sherlock Holmes’s character traits, observational skills, capacity for critical thought, and inductive and deductive reasoning. The Junior Sherlockian Society and Belanger Books are pleased to announce a new anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories written by established authors and student authors alike.  The anthology, The Irregular Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , will be a collection of all new Sherlock Holmes adventures . The royalties from the sale of the book will be donated to the Beacon Society so that they may provide more funding to teachers to introduce students to Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories. See the official press release below: Calling all Junior Sher...

Today is August 9th, the 221st day of the year!  To celebrate this singular day, the Beacon Society , a scion society of the Baker Street Irregulars which focuses on exemplary educational experiences that introduce children and young adults to Sherlock Holmes, proudly launches the Junior Sherlockian Society .  The society invites children and youth to complete Junior Sherlockian Training- an in-depth study of Sherlock Holmes’s character traits, observational skills, capacity for critical thought, and inductive and deductive reasoning. During the online training, Sherlockians-in-Training complete the 2-2-1-b tasks to explore , experience , and extend their understanding and appreciation of the great detective. Upon completion of the tasks and submission of “training evidence,” a certificate of completion is granted. This is pretty much the Sherlockian equivalent of the Junior Ranger's program available through the American National Parks Service. All teachers wh...

"It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles." --Sherlock Holmes  This is our take on the new season of Twin Peaks through a Sherlockian lens. Be forewarned that spoilers abound! Brian:  Man, was I disappointed by this week’s episode (5) of Twin Peaks: The Return.   It proved that Lynch and Frost simply don’t have a strong enough story to sustain the length of this new season.   We get it:   Coop is confused.   Coop the Insurance Agent was mixed up in some shady business.   Coop has apparently become Peter Sellers from Being There since, unbelievably, nobody seems to think he has a concussion or is taking heavy tranquilizers. PLEASE, can we resolve this storyline and bring back the Agent Cooper who we’ve been waiting twenty-five years to return?   In Sherlockian terms, at least when Doyle padded his stories like A Study In Scarlet or The Valley of Fear , the diversions were interesting – you actually...

We have some exciting news at Belanger Books. We are currently accepting submissions for an upcoming anthology. This is a book which we have wanted to put together for years now. Back in 2015, we originally had the idea of putting together an anthology of stories based on The War of the Worlds. While we still may someday put that collection together, we changed our plans when we received a wonderful story submission from author GC Rosenquist . Mr. Rosenquist submitted "The Mystery of the Last Martian". This excellent story has Holmes and Watson solving the mystery mentioned in the title, and it got us thinking, Why not make an entire anthology of stories where Holmes is in the realms of H.G. Wells?   Thus, Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells was born.  See story submission guidelines below: Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells Submissions Imagine Holmes trying to solve the case of an invisible man, matching wits with a tr...

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 ...

T he Great Hiatus! Those three words conjure wonderful and powerful images in the minds of all Sherlockians. Holmes and Watson’s flight from England and the battle with Professor Moriarty atop Reichenbach Falls. Spending time in Lhasa with the Head Lama. Danger while passing through Persia and Mecca and Khartoum. A stop in Montpellier with those puzzling coal-tar derivatives, before finally returning home by way of an Empty House in Baker Street.  -- David Marcum, from   Holmes Away From Home: Adventures from the Great Hiatus Yes, the Great Hiatus is the time in Holmes's life when it was believed that the Great Detective was deceased having perished by going over the Reichenbach Falls in his final battle with Professor Moriarty.  But Holmes was not dead, just as Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks was not trapped forever in the Black Lodge in his final conflict with Wyndham Earl, his own arch-nemesis.   What clues could this time in Holmes' life have for ...