Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

ISBN: 0816674825

Author: Millett, Larry

Condition: Used

The year is 1896, and St. Pauls magnificent Winter Carnival is under way when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the citys most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. A wealthy young man disappears on the eve of his wedding-and his fiancée suspiciously discards her wedding dress. After a grisly discovery in the carnivals Ice Palace leads to a flurry of clues, Holmes is on the case. His pursuit of the murderer takes him through the highest echelons of St. Paul society and into cahoots with Shadwell Rafferty, a gregarious saloonkeeper and part-time private investigator. Soon Holmes, Watson, and Rafferty are embroiled in a perilous adventure that takes them from one frozen corner of the city to another and out onto the treacherous ice of the Mississippi River as they trail a cruel and ruthless killer.