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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas
An Advent Calendar of Twelve All New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Sherlock 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.
Mysteries The Adventure of the Dreadful Author - Author L.I. Whitmore has gone missing from his London home. Could his latest stories provide clues to his whereabouts?The Auction of the Prehistoric Beast - The location of a living dinosaur is up for auction. Could the photographic evidence prove that a monster is living in Loch Ness?The Christmas Ripper - A German family may have been murdered in their Spitalfields home. Could Jack the Ripper be responsible?The Adventure of the Gentle Axe Murderer - What could make a kind man grab an axe, attack his wife, and become a killer?The Bordello Endemic - Holmes must act with discretion when the dowager, Mrs. Stanwyck, and fifteen of her high class courtesans are found dead. With a number of notable clients regularly visiting the bordello, all of London's elite are under suspicion.
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.
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.
Sherlock 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.
Mysteries The Adventure of the Dreadful Author - Author L.I. Whitmore has gone missing from his London home. Could his latest stories provide clues to his whereabouts?The Auction of the Prehistoric Beast - The location of a living dinosaur is up for auction. Could the photographic evidence prove that a monster is living in Loch Ness?The Christmas Ripper - A German family may have been murdered in their Spitalfields home. Could Jack the Ripper be responsible?The Adventure of the Gentle Axe Murderer - What could make a kind man grab an axe, attack his wife, and become a killer?The Bordello Endemic - Holmes must act with discretion when the dowager, Mrs. Stanwyck, and fifteen of her high class courtesans are found dead. With a number of notable clients regularly visiting the bordello, all of London's elite are under suspicion.
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.
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.
199 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 18, 2024
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About the author
Derrick Belanger
121 books50 followersAuthor Derrick Belanger's publications include an eclectic mix: book reviews, articles for education journals, short stories, poems, comic books, and the graphic novel, Twenty-Three Skidoo! A former instructor at Washington State University, and a current middle school Language Arts teacher, Derrick lives in Broomfield, Colorado with his wife Abigail Gosselin and their two daughters, Rhea and Phoebe. Currently, Derrick is working on several Sherlockian projects: the Young Adult novel Sherlock Holmes and the Transformers of Time, the teaching guide Sherlock Holmes for Teachers, the pastiche novel The Funeral of Sherlock Holmes, and the film studies book The Hound of the Baskervilles: From Page to Screen. He also co-authors the web site Mystery Aircraft.com with author Chuck Davis.
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May 14, 2025
The stories in this collection, probably due to their radio-play like structure where the reader is asked to find out how Holmes had solved the case, are mostly for juvenile readers. Few stories are dark and decisive, but the rest were merely good for passing the time.
March 12, 2026
Pretty fun, a series of short adventures broken into daily reads. Each day is a few pages, telling a small mystery or adventure primarily aimed at younger readers. The idea is to read one adventure a day for December to your family. Most are broken up into two part stories, with each first day ending in a question about what Holmes discovered or figured out.
Its a pretty simple and enjoyable read that would be great for a family.
Its a pretty simple and enjoyable read that would be great for a family.
April 15, 2025
Good idea of reading one story a day till Christmas. One story has the mystery with a 'can you solve it' type of ending, the next story, the solution, so it really read more like a puzzle book and didn't go into much detail. Still, it was enjoyable and gave the reader a chance to see if they were as good a sleuth as Holmes (myself not so much, got a few but that's about it). Even Watson was given a case to solve.
Though I read this in the wrong season it still passed the time pleasantly and I would recommend.
Though I read this in the wrong season it still passed the time pleasantly and I would recommend.
December 10, 2024
Fun stories for Christmas
December 13, 2024
I really enjoyed this book.
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