Sherlock Holmes and the Great Detectives
What if Sherlock Holmes Wasn't Alone?
Sherlock Holmes —the name immediately brings to mind an image of the great detective sitting in his rooms in 221B Baker street, his fingers steepled before his hawkish nose, his sharp grey eyes focused on the client who has brought a little puzzle for him to solve. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said when one reads the names of the other literary detectives of the time period, sometimes referred to as the rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Sadly, names like Lois Cayley, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, The Old Man in the Corner, or Dr. Thorndyke are meaningless to all but the most ardent admirers of Victorian and Edwardian mysteries.
The Great Detective Universe series hopes to rectify this problem and expand the world of Sherlock Holmes by bringing the consulting detective and his purported rivals into a shared universe, in other words, a universe where not just Holmes and Watson lived but also Carnacki, Father Brown, The Grey Seal, and many other great detectives.
Sherlock Holmes and the Great Detectives has Holmes partnering with these other noted sleuths to fight crime and stop master criminals.
See Sherlock Holmes partner with:
• Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen a.k.a The Thinking Machine
• Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
• The Grey Seal
• Doctor Thorndyke
• “The Old Man in the Corner”
• Lois Cayley
• Father Brown
And many, many more
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Derrick Belanger
Derrick Belanger, PSI is an author and educator most noted for his books and lectures on Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as his writing for the blogs I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere and Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog. Both volumes of his two-volume anthology, A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural were #1 best sellers on the Amazon.com U.K. Sherlock Holmes book list, and his MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes chapter book, Attack of the Violet Vampire! was also a #1 bestselling new release in the U.K. Through his press, Belanger Books, he has released a number of Sherlock Holmes anthologies as well as new editions of August Derleth’s original Solar Pons series. In 2019, Mr. Belanger received his investiture in the PSI as “Albert, the Dove”. In January 2020, Mr. Belanger was awarded the Susan Z. Diamond Award in recognition of outstanding efforts to introduce young people to Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Belanger’s academic work has been published in The Colorado Reading Journal and Gifted Child Today.
The Great Detective Universe
The Great Detective Universe consists of seven books — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
