Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!   For this holiday of giving thanks, we wanted to highlight some Belanger Books publications and some publications from our friends at MX publishing where the proceeds of the books are donated to charitable causes.  As you start your holiday shopping, please consider these books as gifts. You will be buying excellent story collections and also helping children, schools, and other worthy causes throughout the world. Belanger Books for a Cause - The Beacon Society We donate the proceeds from the following books to The Beacon Society , a Sherlock Holmes Scion Society which gives grants to teachers, libraries, and Sherlock Holmes organizations to help introduce students to Sherlock Holmes. The New Adventures of Solar Pons In the 1920's, college student August Derleth wrote to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking if any more Sherlock Holmes adventures were going to be published. Upon receiving a negative reply, Derleth ...

There are still plenty of shopping days left til Christmas, especially for those with Amazon Prime.  We have a few more great gift ideas for the mystery lover in your life.  Let's start out with a two volume anthology which was the most successful Kickstarter from Belanger Books! Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells  This two volume collection of short stories combining traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches with the fantastic worlds of H.G. Wells is sure to be a big hit with both mystery fans and sci-fi lovers alike.   The World's Greatest Detective in the Realms of the Master of Science Fiction! Imagine Holmes trying to solve the case of an invisible man attacking London - matching wits with a traveler from out of time - tracking down a human/feline hybrid - using his deductive skills to help fight Martian and lunar invaders! These are just some of the stories included in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Well...

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 ...

Happy birthday, Sir Arthur!  The creator of Sherlock Holmes was born on this date in 1859. In honor of the great one, MX publishing has released the sixth volume of its ever expanding The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories titled The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories – Part VI: 2017 Annual . I interviewed editor David Marcum on what we could expect from this latest pastiche volume as well as what to expect from the ever busy author in the future. Derrick Belanger (DB):   The MX Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories started as one volume, then became three, and now is a twice annual event. How did you get from one book in 2015 to where you are today? David Marcum (DM): Thanks for the chance to answer some questions about the latest MX Anthology! When I first had the idea for a new Holmes anthology in early 2015, it was with the idea of collecting a couple of dozen new traditional Holmes stories, at most, from the top Sherlockian writers, and reminding people exac...