The year is 1896 and St. Paul's magnificent winter Carnival is under way when Sherlock Holmes and Dr. 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, Watson, and Rafferty are embroiled in a perilous adventure that takes them from one frozen corner of the city to another and even onto the treacherous ice of the Mississippi River as they trail a cruel and ruthless killer.

By: Larry Millett
Format: Paperback, 320 pg., 5.5 x 8.5 in
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Product ##: 9780816674824

Larry Millett was a reporter and architecture critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press for thirty years. He is the author of fifteen books, including five other mystery novels featuring Sherlock Holmes and Shadwell Rafferty.

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