Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace murders / Larry Millett.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Millett, Larry, 1947-

Series:

• Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.
• The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
• Watson, John H. (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
• British--Minnesota--Fiction.
• Private investigators--Minnesota--Fiction.
• Saint Paul (Minn.)--Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st University of Minnesota Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The year is 1896, and St. Paul's magnificent Winter Carnival is under way when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the city's most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. A wealthy young man disappears on the eve of his wedding--and his fiancee suspiciously discards her wedding dress. After a grisly discovery in the carnival's 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, Wa

Contents:

• Cover; SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ICE PALACE MURDERS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 WHERE IS THE GROOM?; CHAPTER 2 THESE GENTLEMEN ARE WITH ME; CHAPTER 3 I NEVER SEE HEM LEAVE; CHAPTER 4 I SAW A LIGHT; CHAPTER 5 HE GOT ONLY WHAT HE DESERVED; CHAPTER 6 THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST; CHAPTER 7 YOU KNOW NOTHING OF MY SUFFERING; CHAPTER 8 I THINK EVERYBODY HAD BEST SETTLE DOWN; CHAPTER 9 HE WAS QUITE HEARTBROKEN; CHAPTER 10 I INTEND, SIR, TO COMMIT A CRIME; CHAPTER 11 I THOUGHT WE MIGHT FIND YOU HERE; CHAPTER 12 I THINK I AM FINALLY READY TO DIE; CHAPTER 13 I WAS LOOKING FOR A BACH FUGUE
• CHAPTER 14 GOOD LORD, DO YOU SEE THAT?CHAPTER 15 THERE ARE FIVE SIMPLE QUESTIONS; CHAPTER 16 IT WAS THE LOOK OF A MAN BOUND FOR HELL; CHAPTER 17 IT IS THE MIND OF A MASTER MANIPULATOR; CHAPTER 18 I FEAR THAT HE HAS FINALLY TAKEN HIS REVENGE; CHAPTER 19 SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAS HAPPENED; CHAPTER 20 HE IS COLD AND DEAD, GONE FOREVER; CHAPTER 21 I FEAR NOTHIN' CAN BRING HIM BACK; CHAPTER 22 I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A HARD MAN TO KILL; CHAPTER 23 MR. HOLMES HAS JUST HAD A VISION OF LIGHT; CHAPTER 24 JUSTICE WILL BE DONE; CHAPTER 25 DECEPTION WAS HIS GREATEST PLEASURE
• CHAPTER 26 IT IS ALL ABOUT FIRE AND ICEEPILOGUE: I SHALL CALL HIM SHERLOCK; NOTES

Notes:

• Originally published: New York : Viking, 1998.
• "A Minnesota Mystery featuring Shdwell Rafferty".

ISBN:

0-8166-7713-1

OCLC:

733040288