The series is also known as “Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota”. It is a series where Shadwell Rafferty assists Sherlock Holmes in solving crimes, and brings Holmes and Watson to America (the state of Minnesota) in the late 1890s. They get called there in different novels to investigate different things. Shadwell owns a saloon and is a part time private investigator. He is both an ally and rival with quick wit and thinking to help Holmes throughout the investigations. There are both short stories and novels to the series. The series is considered to be mystery and thriller but there are also elements of historical fiction to it. “Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon” by Larry Millett is the first novel in the “Shadwell Rafferty & Sherlock Holmes” series and was released in 1996. A …show more content…
The novel is set in 1896, and is narrated by John Watson. St. Paul's Winter Carnival is going on, and Holmes and Watson are called in by a railroad magnate named James J. Hill. He is quite a powerful man. A wealthy man has gone missing the day before his wedding, and his bride to be ditched her wedding dress, something suspicious. Holmes is on the case after something grisly is discovered in the ice palace. He is taking through the high society in St. Paul, and joins up with Shadwell Rafferty. Fans of the novel find that the way that Millett writes and puts things in the novel respect the original novels in the series. Some found that Millett is great at emulating the voice of not only Doyle writing as Watson, but newspaper journalists. Some find that Millett is able to bring Doyle's version of the characters in his series back to life, and they are given a great series to follow for novels to come. Some enjoy reading about a lot of the architecture that used to be in the Twin Cities, and they think that the novels are well