Larry Millett, Author . Viking $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-03015-6
In Millet's fourth, well-researched Holmes in Minnesota adventure (after 1999's Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery), flamboyant Irish saloonkeeper Shadwell Rafferty scents an impending bloodbath when Michael O'Donnell, a young...
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Larry Millett, Author . Viking $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-03140-5
In his disappointing fifth pastiche (after 2001's Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance), Millett places Holmes and Watson in situations better suited to an Indiana Jones movie, with hairbreadth escapes, gun battles, chases and death traps. He
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Larry Millett, Author Viking Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-87944-1
It's January 1896 when railroad magnate James J. Hill summons Holmes and Watson to St. Paul, Minn. (as he did in Millett's Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon, 1996). Wealthy Jonathan Upton and Laura Forbes are soon to be married in the rotunda of a...
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Larry Millett, Author Viking Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-88821-4
For the third time (after, most recently, Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders), Holmes and Watson make their way to Minnesota and team up with savvy St. Paul saloonkeeper and sometime detective Shadwell Rafferty. The year is 1899, and reports
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Larry Millett. Univ. of Minnesota, $24.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8166-9093-0
Millett’s absorbing seventh Minnesota mystery (after 2011’s The Magic Bullet), a documentary-style account of a sensational 1903 murder case, pits 22-year-old Adelaide “Addie” Strongwood, a beautiful but tough working girl, against the powerful...
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Larry Millett. Univ. of Minnesota, $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5179-0086-1
Sherlock Holmes returns to center stage in Millett’s outstanding eighth historical set in Minnesota after playing a supporting role in 2014’s Strongwood. In 1892, Holmes, who was believed to have perished in a struggle with Professor Moriarty, found
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Larry Millett. Univ. of Minnesota, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5179-1311-3
Set in 1928, Millett’s subpar ninth and final mystery starring barkeeper/sleuth Shadwell Rafferty (after 2017’s Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma) opens on a dramatic note. The 84-year-old Rafferty expects to die soon from natural causes, but
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Larry Millett. Univ. of Minnesota, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5179-1783-8
Millett’s gripping 10th historical featuring saloon owner/PI Sadwell Rafferty (after Rafferty’s Last Case) binds three novellas into a single volume that ranks among the series’ best. In “Death in the News,” a newspaper publisher asks Rafferty to...
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