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...

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...

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 ...