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In the summer of 1994, a workman at the historic mansion of railroad baron James J. Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota, stumbles on a long-hidden wall safe. When experts arrive to open the safe and examine its contents, they make an astonishing discovery. There, inside, is a handwritten manuscript bearing the signature of John H. Watson, MD. The manuscript contains the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota to track a murderous arsonist - known only as the Red Demon - who is threatening both Hill and his Great Northern Railway.

Immerse yourself in the gripping world of STRONGWOOD: An Audio Crime Dossier, the seventh installment in Larry Millett’s Minnesota Mysteries Audiobook series. Set in 1903 Minneapolis, this multi-voice audiobook masterfully unravels the harrowing tale of Michael Masterson, a privileged heir whose relationship with the enigmatic Addie Strongwood spirals into tragedy.

New York, 1908. Private detectives George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield plan to take a break from work upon the Cunard Line’s fleet with the offer of employment upon the Minnesota, a freighter and passenger vessel, which is bound for the Far East. Although the pair are investigating the possibility of a smuggling operation on the route, at first all appears to be smooth sailing, but the voyage takes a dire turn when a fiery Catholic missionary is murdered and it proves to be the first in a series of crimes that plague the crossing.

Diana ist Waise und lebt bei ihrer Großmutter. Neben der Schule bessert sie das Familieneinkommen durch gelegentliche Diebstähle auf. Als sie erwischt wird, ist die Strafe das Geschenk ihres Lebens: Sie darf ihre Schulden in einer Brauerei abarbeiten. Bald mischt Diana den Markt mit einzigartigen Craft-Bieren auf. Ein Lied auf das Leben und ein Roman über mutige Frauen.

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Sherlock Holmes is bored between cases at 221B Baker Street. So when King Oskar II of Sweden - who has heard of the discovery of the Kensington Runestone by a farmer in Minnesota - asks to engage his services, Holmes jumps at the chance to decipher the runes and determine whether the find is real or a hoax. With Dr. John H. Watson by his side, faithfully recording every detail, Holmes makes his way to Minnesota for a third time.

Kimmonen, mies vailla koulutusta ja töitä. Elää pitkät päivät vuokralla tekemättä mitään hyödyllistä. Kun sossu alkaa hengittämään niskaan, saa sankari pelastuksen viime tipassa. Kimmonen palkataan kriisipuhelin firmaan nimeltä Auttava Linja. Kimmosen työnkuva on simppeli: kuunnella ihmisten huolija puhelimitse ja pyrkiä löytämään ongelmiin ratkaisuja. Jonkin moisia ratkaisuja. Komedia ensimmäisen maailman ongelmista ja todellisista ongelmista, sisältövaroituksen voimin.

The year is 1896, and the magnificent winter carnival is under way in St. Paul, Minnesota, when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the city's most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. A wealthy young man has disappeared on the eve of his wedding - and his fiancée suspiciously discards her wedding dress. After a grisly discovery in the carnival's ice palace leads to a flurry of clues, Holmes is on the case.

St. Paul, Minnesota. October 1, 1917. High above the city, a renowned local financier named Artemis Dodge lies facedown on the floor of his armored penthouse sanctuary, a single bullet hole in his head. Thirty stories up, in the city’s tallest building, and not a shred of evidence or sign pointing to anyone having broken into the wealthy man’s fortress. It is - to all appearances - an impossible crime.

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Dogged by depression, doubt, and - as a trip to the Mayo Clinic has revealed - emphysema, 66-year-old Sherlock Holmes is preparing to return to England when he receives a shock: a note slipped under his hotel room door, from a vicious murderer he'd nearly captured in Munich in 1892. The murderer, known as the Monster of Munich, announces that he has relocated to Eisendorf, a tiny village near the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current Tim Johnston returns with an absorbing new crime novel set in a small Wisconsin town haunted by the unsolved disappearance of three boys in the 1970s. What if? What if Sean Courtland’s old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else?...

Missouri native Allen Eskens' "stunning small-town mystery" (New York Times Book Review) is a necessary exploration of family, loyalty, and racial tension in America and "a coming-of-age book to rival some of the best, such as Ordinary Grace" (Library Journal, starred review). In a small...

Readers of Kate Atkinson will delight in this suspenseful and romantic debut novel about a woman haunted by nightmares and her grandmother's role in a doomed love triangle almost seventy years before. Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation. Now thirty-three...

미네소타주립대학 불교철학 강의』의 저자 홍창성 교수(미국 미네소타주립대 철학과 교수)는 지난 2015년부터 국내 불교계를 뜨겁게 달구었던 '깨달음 논쟁' 당시 누구보다 많은 분량의 글(8편)을 매체에 기고하며 논쟁의 중심에 섰고, 많은 이들의 주목을 받았다. 그런 그가 먼 미국 땅의 대학에서 진행한 '불교철학 강의'는 매우 특별하다. 기독교 전통이 강하기로 유명한 미국 바이블 벨트(Bible Belt) 북부의 미네소타주에서, 그것도 불교에 관한 그 어떤 것도 접해 본 적 없는 젊은 대학생들을 대상으로 하고 있기 때문이다.

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