Larry Millett is author of eight mystery novels that feature Sherlock Holmes and St. Paul detective Shadwell Rafferty, including Rafferty's Last Case: A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. His nonfiction works include Lost Twin Cities, Once There Were Castles, and Minnesota Modern, winner of a Minnesota Book Award.

"Violent, intriguing, mysterious, old St. Paul comes alive in Larry Millett's stories as only a former street reporter could make it happen--a reporter with a taste for history, a flair for the literary, and an acute eye for human foibles. An intelligent and amusing collection."--John Sandford, author of the Prey series

"Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul captures the quirky charm of Minnesota's capital city in the 1890s--with its crooked cops, robber barons, madams, and scandal-mongering journalists. Larry Millett's colorful shamus Shadwell Rafferty rubs elbows with upper crust and hoi polloi alike as he investigates each exquisitely detailed case, with edge-of-the-seat suspense building to an explosive finale. Vastly entertaining!"--Erin Hart, author of Haunted Ground

"Each novella effortlessly balances fair-play deduction and page-turning action--there's not a weak link in the bunch."--Publishers Weekly, Starred review

"Besides watching Rafferty develop his crime-solving skills, it's fun to see how author Millett brings in so many fascinating details about the history and architecture of old St. Paul's Cathedral."--Booklist

"[Millett] is able to bring vivid life to 19th-century St. Paul."--Pioneer Press