My new Shadwell Rafferty-Sherlock Holmes adventure, to be published in Spring 2011 by the University of Minnesota Press, has been retitled. It will be called “The Magic Bullet” and will be subtitled, “A Locked Room Mystery featuring Shadwell Rafferty.” More details to follow.
Larry Millett
I understand the new book will have a brilliant cover illustration by a famous artist! True?
Hi Mr. Millett,
Exciting news about the new book. I’ve started rereading your 5 previous books again (since its been a number of years since I first read them) to get ready for the new book next year. Also, I have a question…I see that you wrote a short chapter book, the Mystery of the Jeweled Cross. Do you know if any book store is selling that short story or how I may be able to get a copy here in New York? I’ve always been interested in reading it. Thanks! – Steve
The artrists is indeed famous.
Ben:
Thanks for your message and kind words. My new mystery, The Magic Bullet, is now out and I think you’ll enjoy it, since the book is set in St. Paul in 1917 and really gives a sense of what the city was like at that time.
Larry,
I forget which book it was, but I ordered via Interlibrary Loan one of your books on the old buildings of M-SP. It was fascinating, looking through the old photographs of buildings long gone.
It’s unfortunate that, for some buildings, you could not find better photographs, but you’re probably lucky to have found even those.
It’s obvious that you feel the same as I, that it is such a shame that so many fabulous structures had been left to decay to the point where the only option was demolition. Many were torn down solely to make room for more modern structures, of course; torn down by people who have no sense of history, interested only in profits.
I was born in Miami and grew up there in the fifties and sixties. I have many vague memories of old buildings, there, which have long since been demolished.
Only now, decades later, have people begun to regret having torn down so many unique structures. In Miami, many were what are called Art Deco, only going back as far as the thirties or forties. There were older structures, of course, but they, too, were torn down to make room for “modern” buildings; many of those being the Deco buildings which were, in turn, also torn down.
You mention, elsewhere, that your latest book features mostly Shadwell, as though apologizing to the blogger that Sherlock is not featured more. Don’t. I enjoy Shadwell about as much as I do Sherlock, so I look forward to reading it anyway. I do enjoy reading about the two of them getting together to solve a case, though.
I’m sure this book and any future books (many more, I hope) featuring either or both of them will be great. I do prefer those which feature Shadwell a fair bit, though, as well as Sherlock.