Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas is a collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories to be read over the holiday season (i.e. from December 1st to December 26th). Each story is divided into two sections. The first day provides the case to the reader. The second day provides the ending. You get to think like Sherlock Holmes and see if you can solve the case before reading the thrilling conclusion. 

 

 

 

 

 

And many, many more traditional Sherlock Holmes adventures!

 

The book also contains the four part story The Adventure of the Generous Miser as well as a bonus adventure by Derrick Belanger from the pages of The Strand Magazine, Dr. Watson Takes the Case.

Back the project and also receive a bonus Sherlock Holmes eBook from Belanger Books, edited by Derrick Belanger, BSI.

STRETCH GOAL - If the project reaches 125 backers or 4,000 dollars in pledges, the book will have added graphics in the interior (fancy page headers and some illustrations).

Receive THREE Sherlock Holmes Holiday collections at a special discounted price. You'll get Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas PLUS No Holidays for Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Three Pipe Christmas. A perfect bundled gift for the holiday season!

No Holidays for Sherlock Holmes
From the creative team that brought you the Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Mystery series comes an all new anthology featuring Sherlock Holmes stories that connect to holidays throughout the year.

This anthology features some of the best known Sherlock Holmes authors today including David Marcum, Katy Darby, Geri Schear, Shelby Phoenix, Steve Herczeg, Will Murray, Greg Maughn, S.F. Bennett, Kevin Thornton, Derrick Belanger, Lee Shackleford, Hassan Akram, David Stuart Davies, and Gustavo Bondoni

Plus, a cover by The Strand and Sherlock Holmes: a Year of Mystery artist Jeffrey McKeever!

Introduction by Nicholas Meyer, author of The Seven Percent Solution

Sherlock Holmes: A Three Pipe Christmas
One hundred years ago, for Christmas 1920, Chicago bookman Vincent Starrett gave the world "The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes". Forty-eight years later, for Christmas 1968, August Derleth's Mycroft & Moran publishing house printed Derleth's "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians" featuring Solar Pons (who is almost but not quite Sherlock Holmes), and a plot line that unmistakably plays off the story of "The Unique Hamlet". Now, on the centennial celebration of "The Unique Hamlet"'s publication, comes this special volume in the great tradition of Sherlockian Christmas books. Here we bring together for the first time "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," which is the only Canonical Christmas story, and the Starrett and Derleth pastiches first issued as Christmas presents. When considered together, the complex interrelations among these works - and their authors - make for a fascinating Sherlockian triptych. Five delightful illustrations and three perceptive commentaries accompany each story, all specially produced for this book. SHERLOCK HOLMES: A THREE-PIPE CHRISTMAS is a wonderful present that will bring you a bit of Christmas whenever you pick it up.

All shipping fees will be charged separately, AFTER the campaign, during pledge management. The prices below are estimates. Actual shipping prices will be determined after production is finished and we're gearing up to send out the books.

If you don't see your country listed below, please contact me to see if I can add your country to the list. 

We want to make sure you have your book before December 1st!


Also, back my cross-collaboration project partner Lady Persephone Investigates and get 2 eBook Novels for FREE!!! See the image below.

 

 

Derrick Belanger, BSI ("The Board Schools"), PSI ("Albert, the Dove") is an award-winning author, publisher, and educator most noted for his books and lectures on Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Derrick is co-owner of the publishing company Belanger Books, which published the first eBook editions of the original Solar Pons books by August Derleth.

Derrick's work has been published in The Baker Street Journal, The Sherlock Holmes Journal, The Strand Magazine, and in The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year (2023). Derrick is a board member of Dr. Watson’s Neglected Patients, the Denver-based Scion Society. 

In January 2020, Mr. Belanger was awarded the Susan Z. Diamond Award in recognition of outstanding efforts to introduce young people to Sherlock Holmes, and in 2024, he won the Arthur Conan Doyle Society Doylean award in fiction for his short story, "The Joyce-Armstrong Confession".  Derrick currently resides in Broomfield, Colorado.

Find him at www.BelangerBooks.com.