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In 1994 a manuscript signed by John H. Watson, MD, is discovered in a safe in St. Paul, Minnesota. The document recounts a mystery in which Sherlock Holmes and Watson travel to Minnesota to investigate the arsonist known as the Red Demon.
First publish date: 1996
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Larry Millett
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