MINNEAPOLIS — If you’re looking for your next read, a book is already on the shelves that takes a deep look at historic Minneapolis through a fictional lens.
“Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis” is three mysteries bound in one book.
- Murder at the Falls takes us to the Perfection Flour Mill at St. Anthony Falls, when one owner turns up dead under grotesque circumstances and suspicion lands on the other, plunging the city into a frenzy of dark speculation.
- In A Wilde Night at the Nicollet House, Oscar Wilde, in the midst of his 1882 North American tour and spouting witticisms as only he can, teams up with the longtime house detective at the Nicollet House Hotel to search for the murderer of the hotel bell captain found dead in his room.
- In The Death Committee, a champion lawyer of the working class, convinced his own murder is imminent, arranges for three citizens to investigate his death, with a $10,000 reward going to the one who finds the killer.
Author Larry Millett joined KARE 11 Saturday to discuss the book and the three novellas inside.
Millett is the author of ten mysteries that feature Sherlock Holmes and St. Paul detective Shadwell Rafferty, including the collection Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul, and his nonfiction works include Once There Were Castles and Minnesota Modern, winner of a Minnesota Book Award—all from the University of Minnesota Press…