Böcker av Larry Millett

"Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul presents three novellas from Larry Millett, casting back to detective Shadwell Rafferty's early years. A shake up at the Pioneer Press, a string of cat deaths escalating to murder, an enigmatic stranger arriving in town-these interlocking stories, all steeped in the mystery and history of nineteenth-century St. Paul, show Rafferty becoming the consummate detective whose exploits have delighted readers again and again"--

The thrilling sixth novel in local historian Larry Millett's renowned mystery series.

"A Minnesota Mystery with Special Appearances by Shadwell Rafferty and Sherlock Holmes."

For the first time in English, the father of the shopping mall" tells his life story"

The story of one of Minnesota’s most famous and most mourned buildings, set against the history of downtown Minneapolis When it opened in 1890, the twelve-story Northwestern Guaranty Loan Building was the tallest, largest, and most splendid commercial structure in Minneapolis—a mighty stone skyscraper built for the ages. How this grand Richardsonian Romanesque edifice, which later came to be called the Metropolitan Building, rose with the growth of Minneapolis only to fall in the throes of the city’s postwar renewal, is revealed in Metropolitan Dreams in all its scandalous intrigue. It is a tale of urban growing pains and architectural ghosts and of colorful, sometimes criminal characters amid the grandeur and squalor of building and rebuilding a city’s skyline.Against the thrumming backdrop of turn-of-the-century Minneapolis, architectural critic and historian Larry Millett recreates the impressive rise of the massive office building, its walls of green New Hampshire granite and red Lake Superior sandstone surrounding its true architectural wonder, a dazzling twelve-story iron and glass light court. The drama, however, was far from confined to the building itself. A consummate storyteller, Millett summons the frenetic atmosphere in Gilded Age Minneapolis that encouraged the likes of Northwestern Guaranty’s founder, real estate speculator Louis Menage, whose shady deals financed this Minneapolis masterpiece—and then forced him to flee both prosecution and the country a mere three years later.Dubious as its financial beginnings might have been, the economic circumstances of the Metropolitan’s demise were at least as questionable. Anchoring Minneapolis’s historic Gateway District in its heyday, the building’s fortunes shifted with the city’s demographics and finally it fell victim to the fervor of one of the largest downtown urban renewal projects ever undertaken in the United States. Though the long and furious battle to save the Metropolitan ultimately failed in 1962, its ghost persists in the passion for historic preservation stirred by its demise—and in Metropolitan Dreams, whose photographs, architectural drawings, and absorbing narrative bring the building and its story to vibrant, enduring life.

Take a tour of the lost mansions of the Twin Cities

Shadwell Rafferty crosses the river to Minneapolis to investigate murder and corruption with the help of Holmes and Watson

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come to Minnesota, on the trail of the famous Kensington Rune Stone

The first novel in the series that brought Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John D. Watson to turn-of-the-century Minnesota.

When one of St. Paul's wealthiest scions loses his head-literally-it's up to Holmes and Watson to track a cold-blooded killer.