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Advent Calendar Bundle: Get Five Sherlockian Advent Calendars for one low price!
Mr Holmes’ Advent Calendar – 24 Solve-it-Yourself Christmas Crimes – Volume 1
Mr Holmes’ Advent Calendar – 24 Solve-it-Yourself Christmas Crimes – Volume 2
Following the sell-out first Sherlock Holmes Advent Calendar, Volume 1 which we have back in stock, our friends at Homoculus has translated their 2nd calendar into English. 24 more cases to solve!
Even in the Advent season Mr. Holmes mustn’t take a break: Murderers, blackmailers and all kinds of odd incidents keep him on the go. And Watson is not much of a help, busying himself with baking all those Christmas cookies for his dog.
With the Advent season in full swing, there’s no time for Mr. Holmes to sit back and relax: an animal killer is on the loose at the zoo, a sinister Santa blows up a Christmas office party without a single stick of dynamite, and an unknown intruder causes sabotage at a local Deli by leaving bite marks on the decorations as well as the pastries.
A crime a day for the entire Advent season – and a convicted crook at the end of each successful investigation. Mr. Holmes’ Advent Calendar Vol. 2 comes packed with 24 new short crime stories for you to solve. Step into the shoes of the master detective, follow the clues, decipher codes, check alibis and unravel the mystery before the end of the day. Then turn the page to find the solution and a new case waiting for you. Great Christmas crime-cracking fun!
Mr Holmes’ Advent Calendar – 24 Solve-it-Yourself Christmas Crimes – Volume 3
24 more cases to solve in Mr. Holmes’ Advent Calendar! An Abominable Snowman at Piccadilly Circus? Of course Mr. Holmes takes up the chase immediately. Once again, Advent proves to be anything but peaceful for the world-famous sleuth. Has a forger been cheating the welfare system? Who poisoned the plum pudding? And what about the suspicious-looking Santa who climbed down a chimney with an empty sack and back up again with a full one!
Mr Holmes‘ Advent Calendar Vol. 3 is simply brimming with 24 brand-new solve-it-yourself Christmas crimes for all the family. A story a day throughout the Advent season. Flip the page to see the solution and the next case waiting. Find the murderer or decode a secret message. Can you solve the mystery faster than the legendary master detective?
Our friends at Homoculus have translated Volume 3 of their advent calendar into English. Check out more of The Strand’s holiday advent calendars, including Volumes 1 through 4 of Mr Sherlock Holmes’ Advent Calendars. Give the gift of mystery and suspense, and celebrate the holiday season with a touch of mystery and suspense waiting for you every morning.
Great Christmas crime-cracking fun!
Volume 4
Give the gift of mystery-solving this holiday season, with 24 more cases to solve! Mr Holmes’ Advent Calendar Vol. 4 is simply brimming with 24 brand new solve-it-yourself Christmas crimes for the whole family. For each day leading up to Christmas, you can enjoy a new mystery throughout the Advent season. After you’ve cracked the case, just flip the page to see the solution to your mystery, and then receive your next awaiting case. Challenge your brain and find the murderer or decode a secret message. Can you solve the mystery faster than the legendary master detective Sherlock Holmes?
Following the sell-out of Mr. Holmes’ Advent Calendar Volume 1 comes Mr Holmes’ Advent Calendar – 24 Solve-it-Yourself Christmas Crimes – Volume 4. Our friends at Homoculus have translated Volume 4 of their Advent calendar into English. Check out more of The Strand‘s holiday Advent calendars, including Volumes 1 through 4 of Mr Holmes’ Advent Calendars. Keep reading for kind words from our customers who enjoyed celebrating the holiday season with a touch of mystery!
“A great gift idea for all who love crime stories.” – Philea’s Blog
“Anyone who loves to celebrate the pre-Christmas season and who enjoys the beautiful details of this time of year is well served with this Advent calendar.” – Literaturjunkie (Blog)
ISBN: 9783946120629
Pages: 48
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas Advent Collection of Short Mysteries
An Advent Calendar of Twelve All New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
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.
Mysteries Include:
- 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.
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