It's November 1896 in the booming capital city of St. Paul, Minnesota. Amid the throng of thousands of Irish, Swedish and German immigrants, Sherlock Holmes has returned to America to attend the wedding of Peter Smith, whom he'd befriended ten years earlier in the case of the County Courthouse Caper. Suddenly, there are complications. An overnight fire. A life's work destroyed. And worse: A dead body. The only clues? A pair of boot prints. A mysterious fuel. A missing sword. Eventually, a member of Peter's bridal party is implicated in arson---and murder. Now, Sherlock Holmes must race against time, and an overzealous police detective, to solve a mystery before the nuptials can proceed. BUY IT NOW!
It's December 1886 in the tiny frontier town of Brown's Valley, Minnesota. A pioneer family's idyllic life is suddenly interrupted by a series of gruesome discoveries: Six dead bodies, each hanging in a tree, with a letter burned into their forehead by a branding iron. What do the letters spell, and who is the killer? Even the great Sherlock Holmes is baffled---until a 12-year-old frontier lad named Petey Smith, and a pair of mixed-bloods called Iron Will and Muley, come to his aid. The history, geography and cultural diversity of the Minnesota River Valley are intertwined with tales of political corruption, deceit, vengeance and murder in this intriguing blend of fact and fiction. BUY IT NOW!