Free Sherlock Holmes and Solar Pons eBooks for the week; Two new stretch goals for Sherlock Holmes and the Great detectives on Kickstarter; Author interview with Sherlockian Thaddeus Tuffentsamer; and The Strand reviews Sherlock Holmes is Everywhere!
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...