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Minneapolis native Larry Millett worked as a writer, reporter, and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press for most of his career.
Minneapolis native Larry Millet, worked as a writer, reporter, and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press for most of his career. This acclaimed author has written eleven works of local historical nonfiction and a series of Sherlock Holmes mystery novels set in the 1890s, many of which take place in Minnesota, as well as other mystery stories and collaborations. Several of his works have been nominated for Minnesota Book Awards, and his most recent publication, Minnesota Modern: Architecture and Life at Midcentury, won a 2016 Minnesota Book Award in the category Minnesota. Four of Millet’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries can be found in the Ebooks MN collection: Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery, Strongwood: A Crime Dossier, The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance. One of his works of historical nonfiction is also available: Once There Were Castles: Lost Mansions and Estates of the Twin Cities. If you like history and mystery, Larry Millett is a must-read author!
Ebooks Minnesota is a two-year pilot project of Minitex and State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education. The collection was made possible in part by funding from the Minnesota Department of Education through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and by Minitex.
