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Book SynopsisLarry 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 in this series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Shadwell Rafferty, all in new editions from the University of Minnesota Press.
"Millett recreates the world of Holmes with uncanny precision." —
BooklistTable of ContentsContents
Prologue: “You Do Know Who I Am, Don’t You?”1
Book One: England
1. “The Message Is Quite Clear” 11
2. “Money Won’t Do You No Good”23
3. “We Are in the Hands of a Magician” 29
4. “Where Are You Taking Me?” 43
5. “Do You Dream About Her?” 46
6. “I Fear Great Trouble Is Coming Your Way”54
7. “Now We Must Do a Bit of Heavy Lifting”60
8. “We Will Be Home in Chicago Before Long” 71
Book Two: New York
9. “I Told Them to Go to Hell”77
10. “Who Are You?” 88
11. “What Cheek!”91
12. “Everything Is in Order” 100
13. “Elsie Cubitt Shall Be Free at Last”105
14. “We Shall Have Him Too”117
15. “Where Is Holmes?”120
16. “Love Is a Strange Thing”131
17. “It Was a Tiger” 135
18. “I Hope You Are Safe” 142
19. “I Will Be Fine, My Dear Watson” 146
20. “Shoot the Bastards If You Can” 149
21. “Let the World Know What I Have Done”152
22. “I Like Those Odds”160
Book Three: The Pennsylvania Limited
23. “They Will Not Escape New York”169
24. “He’ll Be All Mine”173
25. “Do You Remember Alfred Beach?”183
26. “Your Presence Is Requested” 190
27. “I Think I Know What We’ve Found” 194
28. “He Won’t Be Trying Anything”205
29. “You Are British to the Core” 214
30. “Something Like That” 218
Book Four: Chicago
31. “Big Wheels Continue to Turn”225
32. “How Nice of You to Join Us” 236
33. “It Was Strictly a Delivery Job” 249
34. “Perhaps I Am Being Too Hard on You” 256
35. “Trouble Is, We’re Not the Indians”263
36. “My God, I Don’t Believe It”275
37. “For God’s Sake, Do Not Shoot” 279
38. “We All Must Leave at Once” 283
39. “This Is a Thing I Must Do Myself”289
40. “There Will Be No Court”296
Epilogue: “I Do”304
Notes 313
Author’s Note 340
